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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
psychometric
adjective
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▪ A combination of psychometric methods and direct observation and discussion was used.
▪ It seems our current response to psychometric assessment is reminiscent of such unfounded and misguided beliefs.
▪ More and more companies are now using psychometric tests as back-up to the job interview.
▪ This also is done mainly by interview although some use is made of psychometric tests, profiles and rating scales.
▪ This evaluation is an example of the use of psychometric methods, directed towards a given medium, or process.
▪ This orientation method was evaluated by psychometric methods directed towards both process and product.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Psychometric

Psychometry \Psy*chom"e*try\, n. [Psycho- + -metry.] (Physiol.) The art of measuring the duration of mental processes, or of determining the time relations of mental phenomena. -- Psy`cho*met"ric, a.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
psychometric

also psycho-metric, 1854, from psychometry (1854), the alleged power of reading the history of an object by handling it, + -ic. In reference to the measurement of the duration of mental states, from 1879, from psycho- + -metric.

Wiktionary
psychometric

a. Of or pertaining to psychometrics

WordNet
psychometric

adj. of or relating to psychometrics; "psychometric journals"

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Usage examples of "psychometric".

I took the psychometric and I checked their little boxes and I told the goddamned truth right down the line.

The sounds that came from within were the physical side effects of the psychometric energy his mind poured forth.

Dentons made a very comfortable living on the lecture circuit, giving demonstrations of their psychometric prowess and telling about life on other planets.

They were more inclined to take him at face value as a perhaps unique example of advanced psychometric manipulation, and thus as an unusually interesting research subject.

Mickey Croft possessed was a psychometric sampler-modeler, which allowed him to create a simulacrum of a person and interact with it, interrogate it, pose problems to it, and practice his own diplomatic performance on it.

I just wish I knew how that so-called psychometric, that lousy louse of a cheap fortuneteller, got assigned to the Project to begin with.

She would have to find a way to unobtrusively touch each and every one of her friends, and open herself willingly to whatever her psychometric powers found.

Just this once, she was going to try to make her psychometric ability work on demand.

They were more inclined to take him at face value as a perhaps unique example of advanced psychometric manipulation, and thus as an unusually interesting research subject.