Meaning of Fingerprint | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The natural pattern of ridges on the tips of human fingers, unique to each individual.
2. The patterns left on surfaces where uncovered fingertips have touched, especially as used to identify the person who touched the surface.
3. A unique combination of features that serves as an identification of something.
   broadly
4. A unique identification for a public key in asymmetric cryptography.
5. A trace that gives evidence of someone's involvement.
   figuratively

Equivalents

Examples

“Nervously, he wiped the gun of fingerprints real and imaginary with the stocking-covered fingers.”

“The crime scene investigator has the responsibility of collecting latent fingerprints.”

“acoustic fingerprint”

“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.”

“The set of all location fingerprints and coordinates constitutes the location fingerprint database.”

“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?”

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