A fingerprint is a mark on ridges on the pad of a human finger. The term has been extended by metaphor to anything that can uniquely distinguish a person or object from another, including:

• Genetic fingerprint, distinguishing two individuals of the same species using only samples of their DNA
• Peptide mass fingerprinting, in biochemistry, identification of proteins
• Fingerprint (computing), uniquely identifying data by extracting from it a small key known as a fingerprint
• TCP/IP stack fingerprinting, identifying computer operating systems from network packets
• Device fingerprinting, harvesting of software and hardware settings from a remote computing device
• Public key fingerprint, a string of bytes identifying a cryptographic public key
• Acoustic fingerprint, in audio technology, unique code generated from audio samples, allowing computer identification of music
• Fingerprint in the forensic identification of typewriters, based on wear and tear of keys
• Fingerprint in the forensic identification of paper shredders, based on minute variations of the spacing of the blades
• Radio fingerprinting, characteristic signature from minute variations of frequencies emitted by a radio frequency device
• Isotopic fingerprint, characteristic ratios of isotopes in material

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• Fingerprints (book), the Southland Tales graphic novel
• Fingerprints (film)
• "Fingerprints" (song), by Leonard Cohen
• "Fingerprints", a song by The Black Heart Procession from their 2002 album Amore Del Tropico
• "Fingerprints", a song by Katy Perry from her 2008 album One of the Boys
• Fingerprints (album) by Peter Frampton
• Fingerprint (album), an album by Mark Heard

[edit] See also

• Finger Prints (book), a book published by Francis Galton in 1892
• The Myth of Fingerprints a film starring Julianne Moore
• Fingerprints of the Gods an alternative science text
• Fingerprints: The Best of Powderfinger, 1994-2000, Powderfinger's 'best-of' compilation
• Fingerprint Records, record label and recording studio owned by Mark Heard Justus DeLaTorre.

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