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

1 sense of finger scanning

Sense 1
finger scan, finger scanning -- (biometric identification by automatically scanning a person's fingerprints electronically)
       => 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")