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Answer for the clue "Often used as evidence in criminal investigations ", 11 letters:
fingerprint

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Word definitions for fingerprint in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
fingerprint \fin"ger*print\ v. t. to take an impression of the fingerprints of (a person); as, to fingerprint applicants for a gun permit.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES brain fingerprinting genetic fingerprinting COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE genetic ▪ Nothing on the bodies, except of course as you pointed out his genetic fingerprint . ■ VERB find ▪ They had found his fingerprints ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The unique natural pattern of ridges on the tips of the fingers. 2 The patterns left on surfaces where uncovered fingertips have touched. 3 (context computing English) Unique identification for public key in asymmetric cryptosystem. 4 A unique combination ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. 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 a generic term for any identifying characteristic; "that tax bill had the senator's fingerprints all ...

Usage examples of fingerprint.

The MOSS data provided the base for his personal mixture, the fingerprint ID showing where his brain worked optimally, where it was biochemically deficient.

He dipped a finger into my bowl of bloodroot shavings and dotted it thoughtfully on his blotter, leaving a chain of red fingerprints.

Sorry, guys, but how about if our landlord Copes came in to fix some pipes, started undoing this magical tape and left his fingerprint on it.

It was a big bank in which to deposit the tiny sum of fifteen credits but the money was accepted without comment, though he was required to register his fingerprints.

Finding out his fantasies and his sexual fingerprint is the key to unlocking his unique turn-ons.

Ignoring the Garda completely, Dunne pushed the door open with the bottom of a pencil to avoid leaving his own fingerprints and ushered McGrath inside.

Montague says he received the money from Hardcore, initialed it, and submitted it for fingerprint examination.

Kennedy Federal Building, the very place where Kapor was once fingerprinted by the FBI.

She sprinkled the magic fingerprint powder over the glass and wrapped the magic developing paper around it, then she dove under the seat again and came out with a jumbo-sized envelope.

Just as, in the Pickover book which Gus had read in childhood, five disconnected blobs appearing on the surface of a Flatland balloon might really be fingerprints from a single, otherworldly hand.

Should the law enforcement agency desire additional comparisons it needs only advise the FBI Identification Division, attention Latent Fingerprint Section, and either name or submit the prints of the new suspect.

Other reasons are differences in the degree of judgment and interpretation of the individual classifying fingerprints, the difference in the amount of pressure used by the person taking the prints, and the amount or kind of ink used.

Dahl had been in the Haas home, that he had been there that day, that an eyewitness had seen him enter the house, that he had left a fingerprint on the telephone, that a neighbor had made a complaint about him to the police just days prior to the murders.

An attack on the whole theory of the fingerprint as first promulgated by Professor Purkinje of the University of Breslau?

Commission to attach some probative value to the fingerprint and palmprint identifications in reaching the conclusion that Oswald was present at the window from which the shots were fired, although the prints do not establish the exact time he was there.