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fingerprinted

fingerprinted is the simple past and past participle of fingerprint.

Meaning of fingerprint

Verb

fingerprint (third-person singular simple present fingerprints, present participle fingerprinting, simple past and past participle fingerprinted)

  1. (transitive) To take somebody's fingerprints.
    • The jail staff fingerprints its inmates routinely
  2. (transitive) To identify something uniquely by a combination of measurements.
    • Analytical results from this combination of leach tests are tools that allow the investigator to quantify (fingerprint) which geochemical components could be expected in runoff from these piles if they were leached by a cloudburst...2004, Philip L. Hageman, Use of Short-Term (5-Minute) and Long-Term (18-Hour) Leaching Tests to Characterize, Fingerprint, and Rank Mine-Waste Material from Historical Mines in the Deer Creek, Snake...

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Questions about fingerprinted

What is fingerprinted the simple past and past participle of?
Fingerprinted is the simple past and past participle of fingerprint.

Words near fingerprinted in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fingerprinted (page history and authors); fingerprint (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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