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body mass index

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.35 in modern English

Syllables
body -mass in-dex
IPA
29
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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 kg/m² ≈ 703*lb/in².

Inflected Forms

body mass indexes (plural) body mass indices (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

bodymass ponderal index

Synonyms

Quetelet index BMI

Questions

What does body mass index mean?
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 kg/m² ≈ 703*lb/in².

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