fingerprinting

1. 1.

   the procedure of taking inked impressions of a person's fingerprints for the purpose of identification

   Broaderprocedure

Other forms of fingerprinting

plural

fingerprintings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about fingerprinting

What does fingerprinting mean?

fingerprinting means "the procedure of taking inked impressions of a person's fingerprints for the purpose of identification".

How many syllables are in fingerprinting?

fingerprinting has 4 syllables: fin-ger-prin-ting. The stress falls on "fin". In IPA it is /ˈfɪŋɡɚˌpɹɪntɪŋ/.

Is fingerprinting a common word?

fingerprinting is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with fingerprinting?

3 words rhyme with fingerprinting. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.