BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does biometric authentication mean? 

• BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION (noun)
  The noun BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION has 1 sense:

1. the automatic identification of living individuals by using their physiological and behavioral characteristics

  Familiarity information: BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION (noun)

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Meaning:

The automatic identification of living individuals by using their physiological and behavioral characteristics

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

biometric authentication; biometric identification; identity verification

Context example:

if a pin or password is lost or forgotten it can be changed and reissued but a biometric identification cannot

Hypernyms ("biometric authentication" is a kind of...):

identification (evidence of identity; something that identifies a person or thing)

Domain category:

act of terrorism; terrorism; terrorist act (the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "biometric authentication"):

DNA fingerprint; genetic fingerprint (biometric identification obtained by examining a person's unique sequence of DNA base pairs; often used for evidence in criminal law cases)

automatic face recognition; face recognition; facial recognition (biometric identification by scanning a person's face and matching it against a library of known faces)

fingerprint (a print made by an impression of the ridges in the skin of a finger; often used for biometric identification in criminal investigations)

finger scan; finger scanning (biometric identification by automatically scanning a person's fingerprints electronically)

iris scanning (biometric identification by scanning the iris of the eye)

signature recognition (biometric identification by automatically scanning a person's signature and matching it electronically against a library of known signatures)

retinal scanning (biometric identification by scanning the retina of the eye)

voiceprint (biometric identification by electronically recording and graphically representing a person's voice)