retinal scanning

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   biometric identification by scanning the retina of the eye

   “identification by retinal scanning is complicated by eye movements”

   Broaderbiometric identification

Questions about retinal scanning

What does retinal scanning mean?

retinal scanning means "biometric identification by scanning the retina of the eye".

Is retinal scanning a common word?

retinal 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.