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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

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

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  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: {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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