fingerprinting
Speech parts
1. fingerprinting - Noun
2. fingerprinting - Verb
Meaning
the procedure of taking inked impressions of a person's fingerprints for the purpose of identification
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Before his methods were commercialised in 1987, his laboratory was the only centre in the world that carried out DNA fingerprinting, and was consequently very busy, receiving inquiries from all over the globe.
Fingerprints Sir William Herschel was one of the first to advocate the use of fingerprinting in the identification of criminal suspects.
According to WP29, device fingerprinting is a technique which consists of combining various information elements to uniquely identify a device or application.
A containing more information about this static file fingerprinting technique can throw more light on this concept.
From the early 1980s, a civil disobedience movement encouraged refusal of the fingerprinting that accompanied registration every five years.
Fingerprint examination, blood analysis and DNA fingerprinting are common kinds of expert evidence heard in serious criminal cases.