fingerprint
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (America) IPA: /ˈfɪŋɡɚˌpɹɪnt/
fingerprint (plural fingerprints)
- The unique natural pattern of ridges on the tips of the fingers.
- The patterns left on surfaces where uncovered fingertips have touched.
- 1974, Patricia Highsmith, Ripley's Game, chapter 7
- Nervously, he wiped the gun of fingerprints real and imaginary with the stocking-covered fingers.
- 1974, Patricia Highsmith, Ripley's Game, chapter 7
- (computing) Unique identification for public key in asymmetric cryptosystem.
- A unique combination of features that serves as an identification of something.
- A trace that gives evidence of someone's involvement.
- French: empreinte digitale
- German: Fingerabdruck
- Italian: impronta digitale
- Portuguese: impressão digital
- Russian: отпеча́ток па́льца
- Spanish: huella digital, huella dactilar
- French: empreinte digitale
- German: Fingerabdruck
- Italian: impronta digitale
- Portuguese: impressão digital
- Russian: отпеча́ток па́льца
- Spanish: huella digital, huella dactilar
fingerprint (fingerprints, present participle fingerprinting; past and past participle fingerprinted)
- (transitive) To take somebody's fingerprints.
- ''The jail staff fingerprints its inmates routinely
- (transitive) To identify something uniquely by a combination of measurements.
- Portuguese: tirar as digitais
- Russian: дактилоскопи́ровать
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