fingerprint
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fingerprint
- /ˈfɪŋɡɚˌpɹɪnt/ US
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From finger + print.
noun fingerprints · finger-print
- The natural pattern of ridges on the tips of human fingers, unique to each individual.
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The pattern left on a surface where an uncovered fingertip has touched, especially as used to identify the person who touched the surface.
Nervously, he wiped the gun of fingerprints real and imaginary with the stocking-covered fingers.
Similar: finger impression
- A unique combination of features that serves as an identification of something. acoustic fingerprint
- A unique identification for a public key in asymmetric cryptography.
- A trace that gives evidence of someone's involvement. 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?
verb fingerprints · fingerprinting · fingerprinted · finger-print
- To take somebody's fingerprints. The jail staff fingerprints its inmates routinely
- To identify something uniquely by a combination of measurements. 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...
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: fingermark, handprint, imprint, impression, print, ultraviolet, dactylogram, digital, mark, thumbprint, footprint, stamp, finger, dna, prints, finger-print
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noun the pattern of ridges on the tips of the fingers
| Español | huella digital, huella dactilar |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 지문 jimun |
| 日本語 | 指紋 shimon |
| 中文 | 指紋 /指纹 zhǐwén |
| Kiswahili | alama ya kidole |
| Português | impressão digital |
| Français | empreinte digitale |
| Deutsch | Fingerabdruck |
| Italiano | impronta digitale |
| Ελληνικά | δακτυλικό αποτύπωμα daktylikó apotýpoma |
| Română | amprentă digitală |
| Русский | отпеча́ток па́льца otpečátok pálʹca, отпеча́ток otpečátok |
| Tiếng Việt | vân tay |
| العربية | بَصْمَة baṣma |
noun the patterns left on surfaces where fingertips have touched
| Español | huella digital, huella dactilar |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 지문 jimun |
| 日本語 | 指紋 shimon |
| 中文 | 指紋 /指纹 zhǐwén, 指印 zhǐyìn |
| Kiswahili | alama ya kidole |
| Português | impressão digital |
| Français | empreinte digitale |
| Deutsch | Fingerabdruck |
| Italiano | impronta digitale |
| Ελληνικά | δακτυλικό αποτύπωμα daktylikó apotýpoma |
| Română | amprentă digitală |
| Русский | отпеча́ток па́льца otpečátok pálʹca, отпеча́тки па́льцев otpečátki pálʹcev, отпеча́ток otpečátok |
| Tiếng Việt | dấu vân tay |
| العربية | بَصْمَة baṣma |
noun unique identification for public key in asymmetric cryptosystem
| Español | huella digital |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 指紋碼 /指纹码 zhǐwénmǎ |
| Ελληνικά | ψηφιακό αποτύπωμα psifiakó apotýpoma |
| العربية | بَصْمَة baṣma |
verb to take fingerprints
| Español | tomarle las huellas dactilares |
|---|---|
| Português | tirar as digitais |
| Deutsch | Fingerabdruck nehmen, Fingerabdruck machen, daktyloskopieren |
| Ελληνικά | δακτυλοσκοπώ daktyloskopó |
| Русский | дактилоскопи́ровать daktiloskopírovatʹ, снима́ть отпеча́тки па́льцев snimátʹ otpečátki pálʹcev |
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title = {fingerprint},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
