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footprint

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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.

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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But, another Crusoe chancing upon the footprint of another man Friday, his nose, not his eyes, shocked him electrically alert as he smelled the fresh contact of a living man's foot with the ground.
Jerry of the Islands by London, Jack View in context
It was Whitely who discovered the first clue--a huge human-like footprint in the soft earth beside the spring, and indications of a struggle in the mud.
The Land That Time Forgot by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
Robinson Crusoe could not have been more startled at the footprint in the sand than we were at this unwelcome discovery.
Typee by Melville, Herman View in context
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