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Delta Point

Vangie Beal
Last Updated May 24, 2021 7:40 am

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In biometrics and fingerprint scanning, the delta point is a pattern of a fingerprint that resembles the Greek letter delta. It’s the point on a friction ridge at or nearest to the point of divergence of two type lines.

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