fingerprint
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From finger + print.
Compound parts: finger
print
Inflected forms:
form: fingerprints
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: finger-print
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: fingerprints
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fingerprinting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fingerprinted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fingerprinted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: finger-print
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The natural pattern of ridges on the tips of human fingers, unique to each individual.
pos: noun
gloss: The pattern left on a surface where an uncovered fingertip has touched, especially as used to identify the person who touched the surface.
pos: noun
examples: Nervously, he wiped the gun of fingerprints real and imaginary with the stocking-covered fingers.
The crime scene investigator has the responsibility of collecting latent fingerprints.
gloss: A unique combination of features that serves as an identification of something.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: acoustic fingerprint
Most pharmacopoeial monographs of medicinal plants include TLC as method for identification based on a chromatographic fingerprint, which consists of a sequence of characteristic substance zones.
The set of all location fingerprints and coordinates constitutes the location fingerprint database.
gloss: A unique identification for a public key in asymmetric cryptography.
pos: noun
gloss: A trace that gives evidence of someone's involvement.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: And continue to ask yourself the question, could the incredible complexity of the human body with its multitudinous specialized functions have come into being completely by chance or is it another fingerprint of God?
gloss: To take somebody's fingerprints.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The jail staff fingerprints its inmates routinely
Too often, the union says, farmers feel the police response is inadequate and the sentencing too lenient. It’s a view seemingly shared by one of the latest victims of bee rustling, Norfolk bee keeper Simon Greenwood, who told the Observer that police had taken some photos of the scene, fingerprinted a can and then sent him a letter to say no further action was being taken.
gloss: To identify something uniquely by a combination of measurements.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Analytical results from this combination of leach tests are tools that allow the investigator to quantify (fingerprint) which geochemical components could be expected in runoff from these piles if they were leached by a cloudburst...
A significant disadvantage of DNA fingerprinting that excludes conventional methods of population genetic analysis is an absence of genetic interpretation of hybridization fragment origin.
Related words: tented arch
hash
dactylography
biometrics
Derived words: chemical fingerprint
clickprint
fingerprintability
fingerprintable
fingerprint analysis
fingerprinter
fingerprinting
fingerprint powder
fingerprint recognition
latent fingerprint
Rabin fingerprint
writeprint
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