fingermark


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fingermark

(ˈfɪŋɡəˌmɑːk)
n
a mark left by dirty or greasy fingers on paintwork, walls, etc
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
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Noun1.fingermark - a smudge made by a (dirty) finger
blot, smirch, smudge, daub, slur, smear, spot - a blemish made by dirt; "he had a smudge on his cheek"
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Translations

fingermark

[ˈfɪŋgəmɑːk] Nhuella f
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

fingermark

[ˈfɪŋgərmɑːrk] ntrace f de doigt
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

fingermark

[ˈfɪŋgəˌmɑːk] nditata
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
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As part of the experience participants will be powdering and lifting fingermark evidence, examining a silicone body, testing for DNA, analysing witness accounts, submitting exhibits for forensic analysis and finally identifying the heinous murderer.
It was followed by the newly merged tribal districts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa erstwhile federally administered tribal areas (Fata) with a coverage of 98.8 per cent and fingermark on 95.9 per cent of children.
It was followed by the newly merged tribal districts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa with a coverage of 98.8 per cent and fingermark on 95.9 per cent of children.
(124) As the authors note, "discarding a good quality fingermark will lead to the potential loss of identifying evidence which, at the extreme, could lead to a guilty person not being detained or convicted." (125) This could affect innocent individuals who are suspected for the crime for which the guilty person is "not...
Weyermann, "Composition of fingermark residue: a qualitative and quantitative review," Forensic Science International, vol.
[61] Leegwater AJ, Didier M, Sjerps M, Vergeer P, Alberink I (2017) Performance study of a score-based likelihood ratio system for forensic fingermark comparison.
On April 2 last year after an argument with his girlfriend Bridget Elliott he put his hands round her neck as if trying to strangle her leaving fingermark bruises.
In Australia, this species is known as "Golden Snapper" or "Fingermark" and is a dominant, large lutjanid of the nearshore community of reef fishes from the Kimberley region (~124[degrees] E) in northwestern Australia, across northern Australia, and down the Queensland coast to at least 23[degrees] S (Travers et al., 2009).
ionisation mass spectrometry imaging), a technology that can map fingermark ridge patterns.