biometric authentication,
biometric identification,
identity verification the automatic identification of living individuals by using their physiological and behavioral characteristics; "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"
imprint a device produced by pressure on a surface
positive identification evidence proving that you are who you say you are; evidence establishing that you are among the group of people already known to the system; recognition by the system leads to acceptance; "a system for positive identification can prevent the use of a single identity by several people"
negative identification evidence proving that you are not who you say you are not; evidence establishing that you are not among a group of people already known to the system; recognition by the system leads to rejection; "a system for negative identification can prevent the use of multiple identities by a single person"
facial profiling identification of criminals and terrorist by means of videotapes of their faces; "facial profiling is a new form of airport security"
fingerprint a print made by an impression of the ridges in the skin of a finger; often used for biometric identification in criminal investigations
linguistic profiling using speech characteristics or dialect to identify a speaker's race or religion or social class
identification -
the condition of having the identity (of a person or object) established; "the thief's identification was followed quickly by his arrest"; "identification of the gun was an important clue"
status,
condition the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society; "he had the status of a minor"; "the novel attained the status of a classic"; "atheists do not enjoy a favorable position in American life"
identification -
the attribution to yourself (consciously or unconsciously) of the characteristics of another person (or group of persons)
identification -
the process of recognizing something or someone by remembering; "a politician whose recall of names was as remarkable as his recognition of faces"; "experimental psychologists measure the elapsed time from the onset of the stimulus to its recognition by the observer"
