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footprint
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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 and memory footprint.
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

footprint [′fu̇t‚print]
(building construction)
A description of the exact size, shape, and location of a building's foundation as the foundation has been installed on a specific site. Also known as building footprint.
(communications)
The area of the earth's surface that can be covered by a communications satellite at any given time.
(computer science)
The amount and shape of the area occupied by equipment, such as a terminal or microcomputer, on desktop, floor, or other surface area.

footprint
The area on a plane directly beneath a structure (or piece of equipment), that has the same perimeter as the structure (or piece of equipment).

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.


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Where once it was possible for me to figure out at a glance exactly which among the careless duo in the house had been on the sofa ahead of me because of the way the upholstery was rumpled, or whose feet had muddied the floor by the design of the sole of the shoeprint, now my eyes avoid all such evidence.
But jurors were told once inside he turned on Mr Lindley, stamping on his head so hard he left a shoeprint on it which matched his trainers and attacking him with a weapon, possibly the 89-year-old's own walking stick.
Responding deputies followed shoeprints to the home of the suspects, but no names were released and the case remained under investigation.
 
 
 
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