biometric identification

Questions about biometric identification

What does biometric identification mean?

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

What is another word for biometric identification?

Close synonyms include biometric authentication, 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 identification a common word?

biometric identification 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.