somatotyping

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Verb[edit]

somatotyping

  1. present participle and gerund of somatotype

Noun[edit]

somatotyping (uncountable)

  1. The process of determining somatotypes.
    • 1973, Lyall Watson, Supernature, page vi. 202:
      William Sheldon in 1940 worked out a system of somatotyping that recognizes three extremes of body shape[.]