biometrics=البيومترية

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biometrics=البيومترية

ONLINE ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY:

biometrics (n.)

"application of mathematics to biology," 1902, from biometric (also see -ics); slightly earlier in this sense was biometry (1901), which was coined by Whewell and used by him and others with a sense of "calculation of life expectancy" (1831).

biometric (adj.)

1888, from bio- + -metric.

bio-

word-forming element, from Greek bio-, comb. form of bios "one's life, course or way of living, lifetime" (as opposed to zoe "animal life, organic life"), from PIE root *gweie- "to live" (cf. Sanskrit jivah "alive, living;" Old English cwic "alive;" Latin vivus "living, alive," vita "life;" Middle Persian zhiwak "alive;" Old Church Slavonic zivo "to live;" Lithuanian gyvas "living, alive;" Old Irish bethu "life," bith "age;" Welsh byd "world"). Equivalent of Latin vita. The correct usage is that in biography, but in modern science it has been extended to mean "organic life."

-metric

word-forming element from -metry + -ic.

-metry

word-forming element meaning "process of measuring," M.E. -metrie, from M.Fr. -metrie, from L. -metria, from Gk. -metria "a measuring of," from -metros "measurer of," from metron "measure" (see meter (n.2)).