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fingerprintable

fingerprintable adjective: that warrants or justifies taking a fingerprint or fingerprints.

Adjective

fingerprintable (comparative more fingerprintable, superlative most fingerprintable)

  1. (offense, etc) That warrants or justifies taking a fingerprint or fingerprints.
    • It appears, under the Leandre C. rationale, a youth could be printed for investigatory police purposes prior to an arrest, but might not be eligible for fingerprinting upon arrest because the charge is not a fingerprintable offense.2012, Joseph R. Carrieri, LexisNexis AnswerGuide New York Family Court Proceedings
  2. (data, etc) That can be fingerprinted.
    • Many are silent upon connection until you send them the expected string, but some will actually prompt you for a login in identifiable and fingerprintable ways.2011, Russ Rogers, Nessus Network Auditing

Forms of fingerprintable

comparativemore fingerprintable
superlativemost fingerprintable

Origin of fingerprintable

From fingerprint + -able.

Questions about fingerprintable

What does fingerprintable mean?
Fingerprintable means that warrants or justifies taking a fingerprint or fingerprints.
What part of speech is fingerprintable?
Fingerprintable is an adjective.

Words near fingerprintable in the dictionary

  1. fingerprint analysis
  2. fingerprint powder
  3. fingerprint powders
  4. fingerprint recognition
  5. fingerprintability
  6. fingerprintable
  7. fingerprinted
  8. fingerprinter
  9. fingerprinters
  10. fingerprintie
  11. fingerprinties

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