biometric authentication

1. 1.

   the automatic identification of living individuals by using their physiological and behavioral characteristics

   “negative identification can only be accomplished through biometric identification”

   “if a pin or password is lost or forgotten it can be changed and reissued but a biometric identification cannot”

   Synonymsbiometric identificationidentity verification

   Broaderidentification

   NarrowerDNA fingerprintface recognitionfingerprintfinger scaniris scanningsignature recognitionretinal scanningvoiceprint

   terrorism

Questions about biometric authentication

What does biometric authentication mean?

biometric authentication means "the automatic identification of living individuals by using their physiological and behavioral characteristics".

What is another word for biometric authentication?

Close synonyms include biometric identification, identity verification. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is biometric authentication a common word?

biometric authentication is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.