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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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