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What is "fingerprinting"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
fingerprinting
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
brain fingerprinting
genetic fingerprinting
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Anger at the fingerprinting this entails has become increasingly rampant in recent years.
▪ But using the technique of genetic fingerprinting at the Cellmark laboratories in Abingdon, scientists discounted the claims the birds were sisters.
▪ Isotopic fingerprinting can also make an important contribution towards information about modern as well as ancient trade.
▪ Match-Finder is a new software package for chromatographic pattern recognition, or fingerprinting, from Perkins Elmer.
▪ Read in studio Genetic fingerprinting is being used to help stop the theft and illegal sale of endangered birds.
▪ Use was made of modern inventions, including fingerprinting, photography, automobiles and telephones.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
fingerprinting

fingerprinting \fingerprinting\ n. The procedure of taking inked impressions of a person's fingerprints.

Wiktionary
fingerprinting

vb. (present participle of fingerprint English)

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WordNet
fingerprinting

n. the procedure of taking inked impressions of a person's fingerprints for the purpose of identification

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Usage examples of "fingerprinting".

I don't have a fingerprinting outfit with me, I don't have access to a lot of criminal records, I can't broadcast your father's description, and I haven't got an army of operatives to follow every lead.

It improves direction-finding apparatus and devises radio fingerprinting apparatus.

His father had been doing clever things with genetic fingerprinting and other scientific oddities as long as he could remember and no one had taken any notice.

Also called genetic typing, or-erroneously- DNA fingerprinting or genetic fingerprinting.

The first was a completely reliable oral contraceptive: the 3econd was an equally infallible method-as certain as fingerprinting, and based on a very detailed analysis of the blood- of identifying the father of any child.

Aided by three other detectives recruited locally through Inspector Wylie they'd spent over an hour and a half fingerprinting the entire inside of the laboratory and were now collating and tabulating their results.