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  • noun A person or device that records fingerprints.

Etymologies

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fingerprint +‎ -er

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Examples

  • Meanwhile in Britain, a “disproportionate” number of Asian and blacks are being stopped by police and scanned by a mobile fingerprinter:

    BBC Accuses British Police Of Racial Profiling « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2009

  • Meanwhile in Britain, a “disproportionate” number of Asian and blacks are being stopped by police and scanned by a mobile fingerprinter:

    2009 February 28 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2009

  • Meanwhile in Britain, a “disproportionate” number of Asian and blacks are being stopped by police and scanned by a mobile fingerprinter:

    2009 February « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2009

  • The CDK's fingerprinter is used to describe intermolecular similarity, by calculating the Tanimoto distances between the bit strings.

    CDK Literature #5 Egon Willighagen 2008

  • The CDK's fingerprinter is used to describe intermolecular similarity, by calculating the Tanimoto distances between the bit strings.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Egon Willighagen 2008

  • Two groups were formed: one consisted of the KNIME guys who, together with Miguel and Federico focused in QSAR descriptor calculations in KNIME, while Stefan, Martin and me looked at the fingerprinter peculiarities that Martin found see also this CDK News article, and came up with a possible further performance improvement of the AllRingsFinder.

    CDK Workshop - Day #2 Egon Willighagen 2007

  • Two groups were formed: one consisted of the KNIME guys who, together with Miguel and Federico focused in QSAR descriptor calculations in KNIME, while Stefan, Martin and me looked at the fingerprinter peculiarities that Martin found see also this CDK News article, and came up with a possible further performance improvement of the AllRingsFinder.

    Archive 2007-01-01 Egon Willighagen 2007

  • Moreover, I don't think the quote does full justice to what the CDK has achieved in the past six years; I'm sure we have achieved more than a fingerprinter and some 2D and 3D rendering!

    "Jmol and the CDK add powerful chemical capabilities", says Munos in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery Egon Willighagen 2006

  • Moreover, I don't think the quote does full justice to what the CDK has achieved in the past six years; I'm sure we have achieved more than a fingerprinter and some 2D and 3D rendering!

    Archive 2006-09-01 Egon Willighagen 2006

  • The Present Day involves having all sorts of things done, like Affidavits of Support, biographical information, biometric fingerprinting which, incidently, will be the third such collection of prints I've given thus far ... quite why they need that many I am not sure but will be certain to ask the friendly fingerprinter when called and other forms, slips, pictures, et al.

    Archive 2005-05-01 RICHARD 2005

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