footprint (redirected from Footprints)

footprint

The amount of geographic space covered by an object. A computer footprint is the desk or floor surface it occupies. A satellite's footprint is the earth area covered by its downlink. See form factor.

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footprint

1. Computing the amount of resources such as disk space and memory, that an application requires

2. an identifying characteristic on land or water, such as the area in which an aircraft's sonic boom can be heard or the area covered by the down-blast of a hovercraft

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1.	(jargon, hardware)	footprint - The floor or desk area taken up by a piece of hardware.
2.	(jargon, storage)	footprint - The amount of disk or RAM taken up by a program or file.
3.		footprint - (IBM) The audit trail left by a crashed program (often "footprints"). See also toeprint.