Fingerprint vs. Toeprint — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Fingerprint and Toeprint
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Fingerprint
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.
Toeprint
The mark left by a toe.
Fingerprint
A mark left on a surface by a person's fingertip.
Toeprint
A very small footprint amount of physical surface taken up by equipment.
Fingerprint
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.
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Toeprint
(genetics) A measure of 30S-mRNA binding.
Fingerprint
A distinctive or identifying mark or characteristic
"We can, from his retelling [of the incident], with its particular fingerprint of stresses and omissions, learn a great deal about him" (Mark Slouka).
Fingerprint
See DNA profile.
Fingerprint
A chemical fingerprint.
Fingerprint
To take the fingerprints of.
Fingerprint
The natural pattern of ridges on the tips of human fingers, unique to each individual.
Fingerprint
The patterns left on surfaces where uncovered fingertips have touched, especially as used to identify the person who touched the surface.
Fingerprint
(computing) Unique identification for public key in asymmetric cryptosystem.
Fingerprint
A unique combination of features that serves as an identification of something.
Fingerprint
A trace that gives evidence of someone's involvement.
Fingerprint
(transitive) To take somebody's fingerprints.
The jail staff fingerprints its inmates routinely
Fingerprint
(transitive) To identify something uniquely by a combination of measurements.
Fingerprint
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.
Fingerprint
A fingerprint{1} made intentionally in ink on a paper form for the purpose of identification of the individual.
Fingerprint
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.
Fingerprint
A smudge made by a (dirty) finger.
Fingerprint
To take an impression of the fingerprints of (a person); as, to fingerprint applicants for a gun permit.
Fingerprint
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
Fingerprint
A generic term for any identifying characteristic;
That tax bill had the senator's fingerprints all over it
Fingerprint
A smudge made by a (dirty) finger
Fingerprint
Take an impression of a person's fingerprints
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