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fingerprinting

fingerprinting is the present participle and gerund of fingerprint.

Noun

fingerprinting (countable and uncountable, plural fingerprintings)

  1. The act of recording an individual's fingerprints.
  2. A test made to establish and confirm the properties of a material or components.

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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Forms of fingerprinting

pluralfingerprintings

Words formed from fingerprinting

Questions about fingerprinting

What does fingerprinting mean?
Fingerprinting means the act of recording an individual's fingerprints.
What is fingerprinting the present participle and gerund of?
Fingerprinting is the present participle and gerund of fingerprint.
What part of speech is fingerprinting?
Fingerprinting is a noun.
What is the plural of fingerprinting?
The plural of fingerprinting is fingerprintings.

Words near fingerprinting in the dictionary

  1. fingerprinted
  2. fingerprinter
  3. fingerprinters
  4. fingerprintie
  5. fingerprinties
  6. fingerprinting
  7. fingerprintings
  8. fingerprints
  9. fingerroot
  10. fingers
  11. fingers and thumbs

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