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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Footprint \Foot"print'\, noun The impression of the foot; a trace or footmark; as, ''Footprints of the Creator.''
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
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"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:
footprint n.
1. The floor or desk area taken up by a piece of hardware. 2. [IBM] The audit trail (if any) left by a crashed program (often in plural, 'footprints'). See also {toeprint}. 3. "RAM footprint": The minimum amount of RAM which an OS or other program takes; this figure gives one an idea of how much will be left for other applications. How actively this RAM is used is another matter entirely. Recent tendencies to featuritis and software bloat can expand the RAM footprint of an OS to the point of making it nearly unusable in practice. [This problem is, thankfully, limited to operating systems so stupid that they don't do virtual memory - ESR]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
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)
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