Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun biometric_authentication

1 sense of biometric authentication

Sense 1
biometric identification, biometric authentication, 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")
       => identification -- (evidence of identity; something that identifies a person or thing)