profile

A graph showing variation of elevation with distance along a traverse.

Data that describes the characteristics of a user, group, program, device, or remote location.

A set of information services used to configure the Microsoft Exchange client and other messaging applications. These services provide a variety of functions, such as access to mailbox address lists, sets of folders, and other features. Typically a user needs only one profile. A user who works occasionally with a different configuration may need to create an additional profile. [Exchange 2003]

See messaging profile, user profile. [Exchange 5.5]

A vertical sectional view of a surface derived by sampling surface values along a section line.

A profile is a set of APIs added to a configuration to support specific uses of a mobile device. Along with its underlying configuration, a profile defines a complete, and usually self-contained, general-purpose application environment. Profiles often, but not always, define APIs for user interface and persistence; the MIDP profile, based on the CLDC configuration, fits this pattern. Profiles may be supersets or subsets of other profiles; the Personal Basis Profile is a subset of the Personal Profile and a superset of the Foundation Profile. See also configuration, optional package.

A set of one or more base standards, and, where applicable, the identification of chosen classes, subsets, options, and parameters of those base standards, necessary for accomplishing a particular function [POSIX.0].