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livescan

noun

Etymology

From live + scan.

  1. derived from *skend-✻
  2. inherited from scanne — “to mark off verse to show metrical structure”
  3. compounded as livescan — “live + scan”

Definitions

  1. A system for electronically and inklessly recording fingerprints.

    • In 1990 the St. Paul Police Department installed the earliest livescan system. [....] Some departments are now outfitting patrol cars with livescan readers.

  2. To obtain fingerprint images electronically.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for livescan. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA