Profile

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Profile or profiles may refer to:

Places

• The Old Man of the Mountain, a former rock formation in New Hampshire that was also known as the Profile

Art, entertainment and media

Fictional entities

• Profile (comics), a Marvel Comics character

Literature

• Profile (novel), a 2009 novel by Chris Westwood

Music

• Profile (Jan Akkerman album), 1973
• Profile (Githead album), 2005
• Profile (Pat Donohue album), 2005
• Profile (Duke Pearson album), 1959

Television

• Profile (TV series) (1955–1957), a Canadian biographical television series
• Profiles (TV series) (1979–1980), a Canadian biographical television series

Brands and enterprises

• Profile, a hard disk recorder manufactured by Thomson Grass Valley
• Profile Books, a British independent publisher

Classification of individuals and groups of people

• Demographic profile, information about a person or market segment, commonly used in marketing. May also include photographic information (e.g., "profile picture")
• Investor profile, a classification of investor behavior
• Profile, a dossier of offender profiling data

Computing and technology

• Profile (engineering), with several meanings in the context of engineering
• Profile (UML), a concept in Unified Modeling Language
• Apple ProFile, a hard drive
• FIS Profile, a banking transaction processing database engine
• ICC profile, used for colour management of computer displays and digital images
• User profile, refers to the computer representation of user information
• Profile, the result of software performance analysis, an investigation of the behavior of a software program

Other meanings

• Profile, curved (molding) or plain (fascia), connecting surfaces, mostly decoratively, in architecture
• Profile or strategy (game theory), a concept in game theory
• Profile spotlight, also known as an ellipsoidal reflector spotlight, a stage lighting fixture

See also

• Profiling (disambiguation)