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–noun

1.	a mark left by the shod or unshod foot, as in earth or sand.

2.	an impression of the sole of a person's foot, esp. one taken for purposes of identification.

3.	Informal. the track of a tire, esp. on wet pavement.

4.	the area affected by an increase in the level of sound or noise, as that generated by an airplane.

5.	Telecommunications. the area of the earth's surface within which a communications satellite's signals can be received.

6.	Aerospace. the area within which it is predicted that a spacecraft or its debris will land.

7.	the surface space of a desk or tabletop occupied by a piece of equipment, esp. a microcomputer or related device.

[Origin: 1545–55; foot + print

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n.

An outline or indentation left by a foot on a surface. Also called footmark, footstep.
The surface space occupied by a structure or device: the footprint of a building; a microcomputer with a space-saving footprint.
An area within which a spacecraft is supposed to land.
A designated area affected or covered by a device or phenomenon: the footprint of a communications satellite.

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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"
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"

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ˈfootprint noun

the mark or impression of a foot
Example: She followed his footprints through the snow.

Arabic:	أثَر أقْدام
Chinese (Simplified):	脚印
Chinese (Traditional):	腳印
Czech:	stopa
Danish:	fodspor
Dutch:	voetspoor
Estonian:	jalajälg
Finnish:	jalanjälki
French:	empreinte (de pied)
German:	die Fußstapfe
Greek:	πατημασιά
Hungarian:	lábnyom
Icelandic:	fótspor
Indonesian:	jejak
Italian:	impronta, orma

Japanese:	足跡
Korean:	발자국
Latvian:	pēda; pēdas nospiedums
Lithuanian:	pėdsakas, pėda
Norwegian:	fotspor
Polish:	odcisk stopy
Portuguese (Brazil):	pegada
Portuguese (Portugal):	pegada
Romanian:	urmă, pas
Russian:	след (ноги)
Slovak:	šľapaj, stopa, odtlačok nohy
Slovenian:	odtis noge
Spanish:	huella, pisada
Swedish:	fotspår, fotavtryck
Turkish:	ayak izi

Free On-line Dictionary of Computing - Cite This Source - Share This

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.
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(1995-04-25)