Sekirov Dictionary

fingerprint

/ˈfɪŋɡɚˌpɹɪnt/

noun 5
verb 2
forms 3

noun5

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. — 1974
(figurative) A trace that gives evidence of someone's involvement.
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A unique combination of features that serves as an identification of something.
- 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. — 2008
A unique identification for a public key in asymmetric cryptography.

verb2

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To take somebody's fingerprints.
- The jail staff fingerprints its inmates routinely
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To identify something uniquely by a combination of measurements.
- A significant disadvantage of DNA fingerprinting that excludes conventional methods of population genetic analysis is an absence of genetic interpretation of hybridization fragment origin. — 2006

forms

fingerprinted · fingerprinting · fingerprints

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