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Fingerprint   /fˈɪŋgərprˌɪnt/   Listen
noun
Fingerprint  n.  
1.
An impression of the pattern of ridges on the skin of the last joint of a person's finger, left on a surface after a person has touched the surface. Note: Fingerprints left by persons who have committed crimes are considered as reliable physical evidence linking an individual with a crime, because each person's fingerprints are distinctively different from those of others, allowing identification of a person with high confidence.
2.
A fingerprint (1) made intentionally in ink on a paper form for the purpose of identification of the individual.
3.
Any distinctive pattern of characteristics or properties of an object which can serve to identify that object; as, the distinctive fingerprint of eugenol in the mass spectrum allowed easy recognition of its presence in the sample.
4.
A smudge made by a (dirty) finger.
Synonyms: fingermark.


verb
fingerprint  v. t.  To take an impression of the fingerprints of (a person); as, to fingerprint applicants for a gun permit.





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"Fingerprint" Quotes from Famous Books



... highly important," agreed Garrick. "I suppose they'd consider a fingerprint, or the portrait parle the ...
— Guy Garrick • Arthur B. Reeve
... was something like a fingerprint they wanted. You'll pass anything but X-rays. He pressed the top of one claw into the wax. Vorongil nodded, shoved it on a ...
— The Colors of Space • Marion Zimmer Bradley
... highly efficient and divided into dozens of departments, covered several floors. Malone passed through the Fingerprint section, filled with technicians doing strange things to great charts and slides, and frowning over tiny pieces of material and photographs. Then came Forgery Detection, involving many more technicians, many more slides and charts and tiny ...
— Supermind • Gordon Randall Garrett
... like a fingerprint they wanted. You'll pass anything but X-rays. He pressed the top of one claw into the wax. Vorongil nodded, shoved it on a shelf ...
— The Colors of Space • Marion Zimmer Bradley
... Justice Robinson. [Applause.] This, of Constable Blake. [Applause.] This of John Mason, juryman. [Applause.] This, of the sheriff. [Applause.] I cannot name the others, but I have them all at home, named and dated, and could identify them all by my fingerprint records." ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain


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