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FINGERPRINTING

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("fingerprinting" is a kind of...):

procedure; process (a particular course of action intended to achieve a result)

Derivation:

fingerprint (take an impression of a person's fingerprints)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb fingerprint

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