body mass index
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body mass index (plural body mass indexes or body mass indices)
- 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 ≈ .
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- Quetelet index, BMI (initialism)
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the measure of the weight in comparison with the height of a person
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