Fingerprint

Quick meaning: Fingerprint is a noun meaning The natural pattern of ridges on the tips of human fingers, unique to each individual.

Meaning

The natural pattern of ridges on the tips of human fingers, unique to each individual.

More Meanings

1. The patterns left on surfaces where uncovered fingertips have touched, especially as used to identify the person who touched the surface.
2. (by extension) A unique combination of features that serves as an identification of something.
3. (cryptography) A unique identification for a public key in asymmetric cryptography.
4. (figurative) A trace that gives evidence of someone's involvement.
5. (transitive) To take somebody's fingerprints.
6. (transitive) To identify something uniquely by a combination of measurements.

Example Sentences

acoustic fingerprint

The jail staff fingerprints its inmates routinely

The crime scene investigator has the responsibility of collecting latent fingerprints.

Nervously, he wiped the gun of fingerprints real and imaginary with the stocking-covered fingers.

Word Forms

• fingerprints
• finger-print
• fingerprinting
• fingerprinted

Synonyms for fingerprint

Depending on context, synonyms include fingermark.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fingermark, handprint, imprint, impression, print, ultraviolet.

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