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Meaning of FOOTPRINT

Pronunciation:  'fût`print

Matching Terms:  footprinting, Footprints

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 Definition: 

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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