Fingerprint vs. Toeprint — What's the Difference?

A fingerprint is an impression left by the friction ridges of a human finger. The recovery of partial fingerprints from a crime scene is an important method of forensic science.

The mark left by a toe.

A mark left on a surface by a person's fingertip.

A very small footprint amount of physical surface taken up by equipment.

An image of the ridges on a person's fingertip made by putting ink on the fingertip and pressing it against a surface or by using a digital scanning device.

(genetics) A measure of 30S-mRNA binding.

A distinctive or identifying mark or characteristic

See DNA profile.

A chemical fingerprint.

To take the fingerprints of.

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.

(computing) Unique identification for public key in asymmetric cryptosystem.

A unique combination of features that serves as an identification of something.

A trace that gives evidence of someone's involvement.

(transitive) To take somebody's fingerprints.

(transitive) To identify something uniquely by a combination of measurements.

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.

A fingerprint{1} made intentionally in ink on a paper form for the purpose of identification of the individual.

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.

A smudge made by a (dirty) finger.

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

Biometric identification from a print made by an impression of the ridges in the skin of a finger; often used as evidence in criminal investigations

A generic term for any identifying characteristic;

A smudge made by a (dirty) finger

Take an impression of a person's fingerprints