Fingerprint Specialist (Noun)
Meaning
A specialist in identifying fingerprints.
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- The detective called in a fingerprint specialist to examine the evidence at the crime scene.
- Fingerprint specialists are trained to look for individual characteristics, such as ridges and whorls, that distinguish one person's prints from another.
- As a leading fingerprint specialist, she had identified prints in countless cases, but none as complex as this one.
- The police department hired a fingerprint specialist from neighboring department to help solve the high-profile murder.
- Years of experience had honed the fingerprint specialist's skills, allowing her to work with prints that were partial or degraded.