| n. | 1. | The impression of the foot; a trace or footmark; |
| Noun | 1. | footprint - a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface; "the police made casts of the footprints in the soft earth outside the window" |
| 2. | footprint - a trace suggesting that something was once present or felt or otherwise important; "the footprints of an earlier civilization" | |
| 3. | footprint - the area taken up by some object; "the computer had a desktop footprint of 10 by 16 inches" |
| 1. | (jargon, hardware) | footprint - The floor or desk area taken up by a piece of hardware. | |
| 2. | (jargon, storage) | footprint - The amount of disk or RAM taken up by a program or file. | |
| 3. | footprint - (IBM) The audit trail left by a crashed program (often
"footprints"). See also toeprint. |