footprint
The impression of the foot in a soft substance such as sand or snow.
Other meanings
Space required by a piece of equipment.
“This computer has a smaller footprint.”
The amount of hard drive space required for a program.
Related words
- carbon footprint
- cyberfootprint
- digital footprint
- ecofootprint
- ecological footprint
- foodprint
- footprinted
- footprinting
- noise footprint
- plastic footprint
- water footprint
- footprints on the sands of time
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Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “footprint” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.