Biometric Characteristic

A biometric characteristic is a measurable physiological or behavioral characteristic of a living person, in particular one that can be used to establish or verify the identity of a person in access control or forensic analysis. Actual adoption of biometric technologies over the next five years will primarily come from government applications (e.g. immigration, social security and surveillance), although corporate adoption will slowly increase until biometric readers are systematically integrated into hardware such as laptops. Typical biometric measurements are fingerprints, retinal recognition, thermograms and speech recognition.

Literal Meanings of Biometric Characteristic

Biometric:

Meanings of Biometric:

Or related to biometrics or its use.

Characteristic:

Meanings of Characteristic:

Distinctive feature of a person or thing.
The integer part of the logarithm.
Distinguishing features of the navigation light on the beacon, etc. by which it can be recognized (color, flash pattern, etc.).
For a given field or ring, a natural number that is the smallest positive number n such that n copies of the multiplicative identity add (1) to the additive identity (0), or, if no such number exists, the number 0.
Being a distinctive feature of a person or thing.