body mass index

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Noun

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

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body mass index

Synonyms

Quetelet index, BMI (initialism)

Coordinate terms

ponderal index

Related terms

bodymass (body mass)

Translations

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

Arabic: مُؤَشِّر كُتْلَة جِسْم m (muʔaššir kutla(t) jism)
Azerbaijani: bədən kütləsi indeksi
Dutch: queteletindex (nl) m, BMI (nl) m, bodymassindex m
Estonian: kehamassiindeks (et)
Finnish: painoindeksi (fi)
French: indice de masse corporelle (fr) m, IMC (fr) m
German: Körpermasseindex m, Körpermassezahl f
Greek: δείκτης μάζας σώματος m (deíktis mázas sómatos), ΔΜΣ m (DMS)
Hungarian: testtömegindex (hu)
Indonesian: indeks massa tubuh
Malay: indeks jisim badan, indeks jisim tubuh
Portuguese: índice de massa corporal (pt) m
Romanian: indice de masă corporală, indice de greutate corporală m
Swedish: kroppsmasseindex n, BMI (sv) n

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