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MINUTIAE DATA—The data representing the relative position and orienta-
tion, and in some cases, the relationship and/or types of the minutiae in a
fingerprint image.
MINUTIAE SEARCHING—The process of comparing the search print
against the file prints by scoring the match of minutiae data in the prints and
ranking the scores to produce one candidate with the highest score that is
the potentially identical mate for the same finger or to produce no candi-
date when the potentially identical print does not exist within the file print
database.
MINUTIAE VERIFICATION MATCH—The process of comparing minutiae
data from a subject’s previously entered single file print with minutiae data
from a single incoming search print and, thereafter, comparing the resultant
match score with a threshold to determine if the prints are potential mates.
NAIL-TO-NAIL ROLL—See rolled impression.
NAME SEARCH—A database program/file that is routinely searched that can
yield the SID number of individuals in the database if they have used the
same descriptive information for a prior event.
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY (NIST)—For-
merly known as the National Bureau of Standards. This division of the U.S.
Department of Commerce ensures standardization in non-defense govern-
ment agencies.
NCIC—National Crime Information Center. Established in 1967 to provide
criminal record history, fugitives, missing persons, and stolen property infor-
mation to local, state, and federal agencies. Succeeded by NCIC 2000.
NCIC 2000—National Crime Information Center 2000. Successor to NCIC that
provides information to local, state, and federal criminal justice agencies
through computer terminals as well as mobile applications. Categories of
information include the following: enhanced name search based on New
York State Identification and Intelligence System (NYSIIS) to provide pho-
netically similar names:
• Fingerprint searches of the right index finger of records on file
• Probation/parole subjects
• Online manuals for download applications through state Control Terminal
Agency
• Improved data quality with point-of-entry checks
• information linking that connects two or more records
• Mug shots may be entered along within a signature and ten other SMTP
images
• Other images such as boat
• Convicted Sex Offender Registry of individuals convicted of sex offenses
or violent sexual predators
• SENTRY file of individual incarcerated in federal prison system.