iris scanning

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   biometric identification by scanning the iris of the eye

   “the structure of the iris is very distinctive”

   Broaderbiometric identification

Questions about iris scanning

What does iris scanning mean?

iris scanning means "biometric identification by scanning the iris of the eye".

Is iris scanning a common word?

iris 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.