fingerprint
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They don’t prevent you from accidentally sharing personal information online, protect you from phishing links or stop you from being tracked through cookies and browser fingerprinting.
From Salon
The piano-black plastic material on the console and around door switches might actually be haunted; fingerprints appear mysteriously overnight.
The system uses machine learning to analyze millions of immune-cell receptors—the molecular fingerprints left as the body responds to threats—and detect patterns linked to autoimmune activity.
Analyses that looked for the fingerprints of climate change in extreme weather events found that such a severe heat wave in the region should be rare even with climate change.
From Scientific American
“They have the fingerprints of events that took place in the early solar system.”
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.