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    BIOMETRIC IDENTIFICATION

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    The automatic identification of living individuals by using their physiological and behavioral characteristicsplay

    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 identification" 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 identification"):

    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)

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