0 a person who predicts the likely behaviour or description of someone such as a criminal, based on the information that is available about them: --
Police are liaising closely with a criminal profiler who is advising them of the potential motives, lifestyles, and psychology of possible abductors.
In all his years as a psychological profiler, he had rarely come across a spy whose outward life seemed so free of crisis or conflict.
They use a facility called the "investor profiler" that asks questions about the customer's financial circumstances to build a picture of his or her attitude to risk and the purpose of the investment.
1 a computer program that checks and reports on how another program is working: --
We can complete it step by step however long the road is and it can't be completed however short the road is if you don't even mark your footprint.
Можем да го завършим стъпка по стъпка, колкото и дълъг да е пътят и не може да бъде завършен, колкото и кратък да е пътят, ако дори не маркирате отпечатъка си.