finger scan

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   biometric identification by automatically scanning a person's fingerprints electronically

   Synonymsfinger scanning

   Broaderbiometric identification

Questions about finger scan

What does finger scan mean?

finger scan means "biometric identification by automatically scanning a person's fingerprints electronically".

What is another word for finger scan?

Close synonyms include finger scanning. 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 finger scan a common word?

finger scan 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.