body mass index

English

Noun

body mass index (plural body mass indices)

1. 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 $\mathrm{kg}/\mathrm{m}^2$ ≈ $\mathrm{703*lb}/\mathrm{in}^2$.

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the measure of the weight in comparison with the height of a person

• Estonian: kehamassiindeks (et)
• Finnish: painoindeksi (fi)

• German: Körpermasseindex (de) m, Körpermassezahl (de) f
• Portuguese: índice de massa corporal (pt) m