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facelocks

facelocks is the plural of facelock.

Meaning of facelock

Noun

facelock (plural facelocks)

  1. A type of headlock in which the opponent's head is clamped around the face.
    • He raised his right arm and clamped a facelock on his opponent.1995, Gordon D. Shirreffs, The Ghost Dancers, →ISBN, page 146
  2. A security protocol based on the attempted user's recognition of faces known to the account owner.
    • This contrast can be used as the basis for a personalised ‘facelock’, in which authentication succeeds or fails based on image-invariant recognition of faces that are familiar to the account holder.2014 June 24, Rob Jenkins, Jane L. McLachlan, Karen Renaud, “Facelock: familiarity-based graphical authentication”, in PeerJ

Questions about facelocks

What is facelocks the plural of?
Facelocks is the plural of facelock.

Words near facelocks in the dictionary

  1. facelifts
  2. facelike
  3. facelinid
  4. facelinids
  5. facelock
  6. facelocks
  7. facemail
  8. facemailed
  9. facemailing
  10. facemails
  11. facemaking

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