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footprint



1. The floor or desk area taken up by a piece of hardware.

2. The amount of disk or RAM taken up by a program or file.

3. (IBM) The audit trail left by a crashed program (often "footprints").

See also toeprint.

[Jargon File]

(1995-04-25)

Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
 

 

Footprint \Foot"print`\, n. The impression of the foot; a trace or footmark; as, "Footprints of the Creator." [1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

 

45 Moby Thesaurus words for "footprint": boss, bump, colophon, concavity, convexity, dactylogram, dactylograph, dent, dint, embossment, excrescence, fingerprint, footmark, footstep, fossil footprint, ichnite, ichnolite, impress, impression, imprint, indent, indentation, indention, lump, pad, paw print, pawmark, pimple, print, pug, pugmark, seal, sigil, sign, signet, spoor, stamp, step, stud, thumbmark, thumbprint, trace, track, tract, vestige

Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
 

 

footprint

noun

1: a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface; "the police made casts of the footprints in the soft earth outside the window" [syn: footmark, step]
2: a trace suggesting that something was once present or felt or otherwise important; "the footprints of an earlier civilization"
3: the area taken up by some object; "the computer had a desktop footprint of 10 by 16 inches"

Source: WordNet (r) 2.0
 

 

Footprint \Foot"print`\, n. The impression of the foot; a trace or footmark; as, ``Footprints of the Creator.''

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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