livescan

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noun

A system for electronically and inklessly recording fingerprints.

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Meanings

nounlivescan (plural livescans)

plural livescans

  1. A system for electronically and inklessly recording fingerprints.

    In 1990 the St. Paul Police Department installed the earliest livescan system. [....] Some departments are now outfitting patrol cars with livescan readers.

    2001, Simon A. Cole, Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification, page 257
verblivescan (third-person singular simple present livescans, present participle livescanning, simple past and past participle livescanned)

present singular third person livescans · participle present livescanning · participle past livescanned · past livescanned

  1. To obtain fingerprint images electronically.

Origin

From live + scan.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

vescalin
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APA

livescan. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/livescan

MLA

“livescan.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/livescan. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “livescan,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/livescan.

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