finger scanning

1. 1.

   biometric identification by automatically scanning a person's fingerprints electronically

   Synonymsfinger scan

   Broaderbiometric identification

Questions about finger scanning

What does finger scanning mean?

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

What is another word for finger scanning?

Close synonyms include finger scan. 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 scanning a common word?

finger scanning 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.