toeprint

Noun

toeprint (plural toeprints)

1. The mark left by a toe.
   • A misleading toeprint may not only be planted on the scene of crime, but just as well on crime objects such as anonymous letters and other articles. In that case there is full and quiet opportunity for the "planting".1955, The Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology, and Police Science
   • “It was, in fact, her natural walk,” he wrote in his autobiography. “Her footprints on a beach would be in astraight line, the heel descending exactly before the last toeprint, throwing her pelvis into motion."2010, Jessica Kerwin Jenkins, Encyclopedia of the Exquisite
2. (informal) A very small footprint (amount of physical surface taken up by equipment).
   • Total toeprint including keyboard for the miniature workstation is 83 square inches […]1989, InfoWorld, volume 11, number 35
   • The tiny, shall we say, "toeprint" of the machine is due to a remarkable feat of miniaturization by Intel […]1991, Byte, volume 16, page 44
3. A measure of 30S-mRNA binding.
   • In the absence of IF3, the 10-fold molar excess of tRNAᴾʰᵉ produces a strong +18 toeprint relative to the +15 toeprint.2010, Single Molecule Tools, Part A: Fluorescence Based Approaches
   • In the case of the entrapment model on the contrary, one does not expect the toeprint to disappear with increasing repressor concentrations, since in this case, both repressor and ribosome can bind the same mRNA.2012, E. C. C. Lin, A. Simon Lynch, Regulation of Gene Expression in Escherichia coli