What does facial recognition mean?

facial recognition means "biometric identification by scanning a person's face and matching it against a library of known faces".

What is another word for facial recognition?

Close synonyms include face recognition, automatic face recognition. 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 facial recognition a common word?

facial recognition 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.

Facial recognition — meaning and 2 synonyms

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
biometric identification by scanning a person's face and matching it against a library of known faces
“they used face recognition to spot known terrorists”
Synonymsface recognition automatic face recognition
Broaderbiometric identification
terrorism

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What does facial recognition mean?: facial recognition means "biometric identification by scanning a person's face and matching it against a library of known faces".
What is another word for facial recognition?

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