body mass index
Noun
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Noun
body mass index
- A statistical measure of the weight of a person scaled according to height, used to estimate if a person is underweight or overweight. BMI units are defined as \mathrm{kg}/\mathrm{m}^2 ≈ \mathrm{703*lb}/\mathrm{in}^2.
- Quetelet index, BMI (initialism)
- French: indice de masse corporelle, IMC
- German: Körpermasseindex, Körpermassezahl
- Portuguese: índice de massa corporal
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