1.
biometric authentication; biometrics
Verifying someone's identity from a physical feature such as a fingerprint, face, iris, or vein pattern, instead of from a password or card.
Formed from 生体 (living body) + 認証 (authentication). Standard on smartphones and banking apps, and increasingly at airports and office entrances.
Common collocations
- 生体認証を使う: to use biometric authentication
- 生体認証機能: a biometric authentication feature
- 顔認証: face recognition
- 指紋認証: fingerprint authentication
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本人確認 (identity verification)
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二段階認証 (two-step verification)
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指紋認証 (fingerprint authentication)
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多要素認証 (multi-factor authentication)