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Fingerprint   /fˈɪŋgərprˌɪnt/   Listen
Fingerprint

noun
1.
A print made by an impression of the ridges in the skin of a finger; often used for biometric identification in criminal investigations.
2.
A generic term for any identifying characteristic.
3.
A smudge made by a (dirty) finger.  Synonym: fingermark.
verb
1.
Take an impression of a person's fingerprints.



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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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