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BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The automatic identification of living individuals by using their physiological and behavioral characteristics
Example:
if a pin or password is lost or forgotten it can be changed and reissued but a biometric identification cannot
Synonyms:
biometric authentication; biometric identification; identity verification
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("biometric authentication" is a kind of...):
identification (evidence of identity; something that identifies a person or thing)
Domain category:
act of terrorism; terrorism; terrorist act (the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "biometric authentication"):
DNA fingerprint; genetic fingerprint (biometric identification obtained by examining a person's unique sequence of DNA base pairs; often used for evidence in criminal law cases)
automatic face recognition; face recognition; facial recognition (biometric identification by scanning a person's face and matching it against a library of known faces)
fingerprint (a print made by an impression of the ridges in the skin of a finger; often used for biometric identification in criminal investigations)
finger scan; finger scanning (biometric identification by automatically scanning a person's fingerprints electronically)
iris scanning (biometric identification by scanning the iris of the eye)
signature recognition (biometric identification by automatically scanning a person's signature and matching it electronically against a library of known signatures)
retinal scanning (biometric identification by scanning the retina of the eye)
voiceprint (biometric identification by electronically recording and graphically representing a person's voice)
