footprint

5 definitions found

footprint - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Footprint \Foot"print`\, n.
     The impression of the foot; a trace or footmark; as,
     "Footprints of the Creator."
     [1913 Webster]

footprint - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  footprint
      n 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: footprint, 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"

footprint - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  footprint
  
     1. <jargon, hardware> The floor or desk area taken up by a
     piece of hardware.
  
     2. <jargon, storage> 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)
  

footprint - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  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]
  

footprint - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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