fingerprint
/ˈfɪŋɡɚˌpɹɪnt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.49 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The pattern left on a surface where an uncovered fingertip has touched, especially as used to identify the person who touched the surface.
noun
A unique combination of features that serves as an identification of something.
noun
A unique identification for a public key in asymmetric cryptography.
noun
A trace that gives evidence of someone's involvement.
Example Sentences
- "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?"
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈfɪŋɡɚˌpɹɪnt/