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Fingerprint

A fingerprint is an impression left by the friction ridges of a human finger. The recovery of partial fingerprints from a crime scene is an important method of forensic science. Moisture and grease on a finger result in fingerprints on surfaces such as glass or metal. Deliberate impressions of entire fingerprints can be obtained by ink or other…

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Biology

Genetics

Classification systems

Fingerprint identification

Fingerprinting techniques

Capture and detection

Forensic laboratories

Crime scene investigations

Detection of drug use

Police force databases

Professional certification

History

Use of fingerprints in schools

Absence or mutilation of fingerprints

Fingerprint verification

Fingerprint sensors

Algorithms

In other species

In fiction

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Fingerprint

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related to Use of fingerprints in schools · 40
Fingerprint → Act, All, An Early Day Motion, Britain, British, By, Conservative, David Davis, Early Day Motion, European Commission, European Union, Following, German, House, ID, In, In March, Liberal Democratic, Lord Adonis, Lords
related to 19th century · 26
Fingerprint → European, Finger Prints, Francis Galton, Georg, German, Great Britain, He, Henry Faulds, Hooghly, In, India, Jan Evangelista Purkyně, Kolkata, London, Lord William Russell, Meissner, Metropolitan Police, Returning, Robert Blake Overton, Scotland Yard
related to 20th century · 24
Fingerprint → Alphonse Bertillon, American, Automated Biometric Identification System, Between, Body, DHS, FBI, IAFIS, IDENT, In, Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification, It, London Scotland Yard, OBIM, Paul-Jean Coulier, Scheffer, Soon, System, The, The French
related to Classification systems · 21
Fingerprint → Argentina, Before, Early, English-speaking, Germany, Henry Classification System, In, India, Japan, Juan Vucetich System, Radial, Roscher System, South America, The, The Henry Classification System, The Roscher System, The Vucetich System, There, This, Ulnar
related to Consumer electronics login authentication · 19
Fingerprint → Apple, Atrix, Built-in, EliteBook, Galaxy S5, However, HP Pavilion, HTC, In, In April, Motorola, One, One Max, Samsung, September, Since, ThinkPad, Two, VAIO
related to Antiquity and the medieval period · 16
Fingerprint → Abu Zayd Hasan, Arab, Babylon, BCE, CE, China, Chinese, Egyptian, Fingerprints, GigaMesh Software Framework, Greek, In, Minoan, Sometime, They, With
related to Genetics · 12
Fingerprint → Additionally, Another, Consensus, Current, For, However, Mendelian, One, Several, Significant, The, Whereas
related to Crime fiction · 11
Fingerprint → Austin Freeman's, Dr, Holmes, Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The, The British, The Norwood Builder, The Red Thumb-Mark, These, Thorndyke
related to External links · 11
Fingerprint → Dictionary, Fingerprints, Interpol Fingerprint ResearchFingerprint, Media, Merriam-Webster, National Institute, OCLC, Standards, Technology, Wikimedia Commons, Wiktionary-logo-en-v2
related to Police force databases · 11
Fingerprint → FBI, For, JPEG, Los Alamos National Lab, Most American, National Institute, NIST, Standards, Technology, Wavelet Scalar Quantization, WSQ

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fingerprints ridges finger used patterns friction ridge identification may use also surface using system latent skin fingers one prints image

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Fingerprintis aimpression left by the friction ridges of a human finger0.90text
glass or metalinstance ofMoisture and grease on a finger result in fingerprints on surfaces0.80text
paperinstance ofDeliberate impressions of entire fingerprints can be obtained by ink or other substances transferred from the peaks of friction ridges on the skin to a smooth surface0.80text
chlorideinstance ofInorganic ions0.80text
sodiuminstance ofInorganic ions0.80text
potassiuminstance ofInorganic ions0.80text
iron are also presentinstance ofInorganic ions0.80text
oils found in cosmeticsinstance ofOther contaminants0.80text
drugsinstance ofOther contaminants0.80text
their metabolitesinstance ofOther contaminants0.80text
food residues may be found in fingerprint residues.A friction ridge is a raised portion of the epidermis on the digitsinstance ofOther contaminants0.80text
perspirationinstance ofmaterial that is on the friction ridges0.80text

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    Fingerprint

    Nodes253
    Edges252
    Triples375
    Avg. degree1.99
    Density0.007905
    Components1
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