different between fingerprint vs fingerprinting

English

Alternative forms

• finger-print

Etymology

From finger +? print.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?f?????p??nt/

Noun

fingerprint (plural fingerprints)

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.
   • 1974, Patricia Highsmith, Ripley's Game, chapter 7

     Nervously, he wiped the gun of fingerprints real and imaginary with the stocking-covered fingers.
3. (computing) Unique identification for public key in asymmetric cryptosystem.
4. A unique combination of features that serves as an identification of something.
5. A trace that gives evidence of someone's involvement.

Hyponyms

• thumbprint

Derived terms

• fingerprint analysis
• fingerprint recognition

Translations

See also

• (computing): hash

Verb

fingerprint (third-person singular simple present fingerprints, present participle fingerprinting, simple past and past participle fingerprinted)

1. (transitive) To take somebody's fingerprints.

   The jail staff fingerprints its inmates routinely
2. (transitive) To identify something uniquely by a combination of measurements.

Translations

See also

• dactylography
• biometrics

English

Verb

fingerprinting

1. present participle of fingerprint

Noun

fingerprinting (plural fingerprintings)

1. An act of recording somebody's fingerprints.

Derived terms

• genetic fingerprinting