Fingerprint vs. Toeprint

Fingerprint vs. Toeprint — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Fingerprint and Toeprint

Fingerprintnoun

The natural pattern of ridges on the tips of human fingers, unique to each individual.

Toeprintnoun

The mark left by a toe.

Fingerprintnoun

The patterns left on surfaces where uncovered fingertips have touched, especially as used to identify the person who touched the surface.

Toeprintnoun

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

Fingerprintnoun

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

Toeprintnoun

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

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Fingerprintnoun

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

Fingerprintnoun

A trace that gives evidence of someone's involvement.

Fingerprintverb

(transitive) To take somebody's fingerprints.

The jail staff fingerprints its inmates routinely

Fingerprintverb

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

Fingerprintnoun

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

Fingerprintnoun

a generic term for any identifying characteristic;

that tax bill had the senator's fingerprints all over it
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Fingerprintnoun

a smudge made by a (dirty) finger

Fingerprintverb

take an impression of a person's fingerprints