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[ noun ] biometric identification from a print made by an impression of the ridges in the skin of a finger; often used as evidence in criminal investigations
Used in print (Hampton Stone, The Man Who Looked Death...)`` Also , if you 're going_to believe those prints , you 'll have to look_for a killer who 's a top-grade piano_player '' . I love fingerprints '' . You may think we did n't need Nancy and Jean , but you always get what you can when you can , and we had no guarantee that a fingerprint record on them could n't be useful before we were through_with this case . The killer , if in our present group , would certainly be interested in knowing that much , and even_though with the fingerprint evidence what it was I could see no way he could use this bit of information to improve on his situation , there might always be some way . Related terms |
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[ verb ] take an impression of a person's fingerprints
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[ noun ] a generic term for any identifying characteristic
Examples "that tax bill had the senator's fingerprints all over it" Related terms |
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