noun
fingerprint
a print made by an impression of the ridges in the skin of a finger; often used for biometric identification in criminal investigations
In a sentence
Six example sentences with fingerprint, each labelled with its topic.
Modern phones store a fingerprint as a mathematical template, so the original image never leaves the sensor chip.
Technology
A single smudged fingerprint on the window frame reopened a case that detectives had shelved eleven years earlier.
Law
Officials in nineteenth century Bengal filed a fingerprint for every contract signer, decades before European agencies adopted the practice.
History
Even identical twins have a different fingerprint, since the ridges form from pressure in the womb rather than genes alone.
Science
The border officer scans a fingerprint from each hand before stamping the passport, and the queue moves faster than it looks.
Travel
The warehouse installed a fingerprint clock so workers could not sign in for a friend who was still stuck in traffic.
Business
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