| Meaning | The automatic identification of living individuals by using their physiological and behavioral characteristics / characteristics. |
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| Examples | - "negative identification can only be accomplished through biometric identification"
- "if a pin or password is lost or forgotten it can be changed and reissued but a biometric identification cannot"
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| Synonyms | biometric authentication, identity verification |
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| Category | terrorism, act of terrorism, terrorist act | The calculated use of violence (or the threat / threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature |
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| Narrower | DNA fingerprint, genetic fingerprint | biometric identification obtained by examining a person's unique sequence of DNA base pairs |
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| face recognition, facial recognition, automatic face recognition | biometric identification by scanning a person's face and matching it against a library of known faces |
| finger scan, finger scanning | biometric identification by automatically scanning a person's fingerprints electronically |
| fingerprint | A print made by an impression of the ridges in the skin of a finger |
| iris scanning | biometric identification by scanning the iris of the eye |
| retinal scanning | biometric identification by scanning the retina of the eye |
| signature recognition | biometric identification by automatically scanning a person's signature and matching it electronically against a library of known signatures |
| voiceprint | biometric identification by electronically recording and graphically representing a person's voice |
| Broader | identification | evidence of identity |
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| Spanish | identificación biométrica |
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