noun
- The automatic identification of living individuals by using their physiological and behavioral characteristics.
- usage: "negative identification can only be accomplished through biometric identification"; "if a pin or password is lost or forgotten it can be changed and reissued but a biometric identification cannot"
- synonyms: biometric identification, biometric authentication
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