fingerprint
IPA: fˈɪŋgɝprɪnt
noun
- The natural pattern of ridges on the tips of human fingers, unique to each individual.
- The patterns left on surfaces where uncovered fingertips have touched, especially as used to identify the person who touched the surface.
- (by extension) A unique combination of features that serves as an identification of something.
- (cryptography) A unique identification for a public key in asymmetric cryptography.
- (figurative) A trace that gives evidence of someone's involvement.
verb
- (transitive) To take somebody's fingerprints.
- (transitive) To identify something uniquely by a combination of measurements.
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Examples of "fingerprint" in Sentences
- I think what we have to wait and look for is what we call a fingerprint on the type of device that was used.
- Check that link for details - and a MythBusters episode where they make a gelatin fingerprint and go around foiling locks with it.
- Matsumoto successfully lifted a latent fingerprint from a glass and with it fooled 80 percent of the fingerprint scanners he tested.
- Santer et al. (2001) confirmed that the wrong fingerprint is observed compared with that expected from CO2 forcing on the atmosphere.
- Bruce is missing a key point in fingerprint reader security: yes, one can steal your fingerprint, but the question is which one of the 10 fingers you are using?
- PAT D'AMURO, CNN SECURITY ANALYST: Well, at this point, they're looking to try to find what we call a fingerprint as to who could have constructed this device, taking a look at what type of material was used.
- Saying that you only store the mathematical representations of a fingerprint is like saying that you only store the mathematical representations of a JPEG, not the actual paint, canvas and frame that it depicts.
- The artist's fingerprints, letter-pressed onto the pages of a book, create progressively complex patterns and sequences, transporting the fingerprint from the world of forensics and law into the freeing world of art and imagination.
- So in the case of the telco example: they look at every single customer uniquely, and look at what they call a fingerprint-and then look at every single fingerprint on the network, and there are billions of these fingerprints, and do that all in real time-while it's happening.
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