footprint

Examples

• All

• Given the fast turnaround time and the reduction in the project footprint, the impact on the store's patrons was negligible.

  Academic text (2003)

• The company's new product has a compact footprint, allowing it to fit easily in small spaces.

• I always need to reduce the footprint of things I store here.

• Now, obviously this thing has a really small footprint, but here is where a lot of the magic happens.

• The room on the fifth floor does not cover the entire footprint of the building.

  Academic text (2009)

• The overall machine footprint is 12 feet wide and 35 feet long.

  Academic text (1999)

• In contrast, our biggest footprint in terms of land use is farming.

• All the methods offer the advantage of having a small footprint and easy integration into existing distribution systems.

  Academic text (2002)

• The device, with a 151-liter chamber, has a small footprint and narrow profile (24" wide).

  Academic text (1993)

• The architect designed the new building to minimize its footprint on the environment.

Synonyms

S

size

vsfootprint

∞ 1.0

How big something is, for example clothes or shoes

focuses on the specific surface occupied by equipment or buildings

A

area

vsfootprint

487 1.0

The amount of flat space inside a shape measured in square units

refers specifically to the surface an object occupies rather than any bounded surface

Compounds

C

carbon footprint

20 3.8

The amount of greenhouse gases a person, company, or product produces

F

footprint evidence

• Specialized

5.4

Marks left by feet that show someone was at a place

T

telltale footprint

6.1

A mark in the ground that shows someone was there

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology