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Term
Definition
ISO   International Organization for Standarization  
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ASTM   American Society for Testing and Materials, International  
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ASCLD-LAB   American Society of Crime Lab Directors- Lab Accreditation Board  
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Chain of custody   documentation of location of evidence from the time it is obtained to the time it is presented in court  
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AFTE   Association of Firearms and Toolmarks Examiners  
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Toxicology   chemical analysis of bodily fluid and tissues to determine if a drug or poison is present.  
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Datum   A fixed point of reference for all three-dimensional measurements  
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Artifact   Human-made or modified portable object  
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Feature   Non-portable artifact  
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Matrix   Surrounding material (soil, water, or a living room)  
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Provenance   Origin and deviation of an item in a three-dimensional space, in relation to the datum ad other items  
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Context   The relationship between items and the surroundings where they are found  
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1. duty of the FO   Detain any potential suspects  
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2. duty of the FO   Render medical assistance to those who need it  
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3. duty of the FO   Do not destroy, alter, or add evidence at the scene  
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4. duty of the FO   Prevent others, even superiors, from mucking with the evidence  
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MSDS   Material Safety Data Sheet  
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Universal Precautions   Require employees to treat all human blood, body fluids, and other materials as if they are infected  
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Evidence   Information that is given in a legal investigation to make a fact or proposition seem more or less likely  
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Trier-of-fact   Whoever determines the guilt of innocence  
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Proxy data   Remnants of events left behind  
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Demonstrative evidence   Prepared later to help the trier-of-fact understand complex testimony  
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Conclusive evidence   Evidence so strong as to overbear any other evidence to the contrary  
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Cirscumtantial evidence   Evidence based on inference and not personal knowledge or observation  
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Conflicting evidence   Irreconcilable evidence that comes from different sources  
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Corroborating evidence   Evidence that differs from but strengthens or confirms other evidence  
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Derivative evidence   Evidence that is discovered as a result of of illegally obtained evidence and is therefore inadmissible because of the primary taint  
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Exculpatory evidence   Evidence tending to establish a criminal defendant's innocence  
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Foundational evidence   Evidence that determines the admissibility of other evidence  
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Hearsay   Testimony that is given by a witness who relates what others have said  
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Incriminating evidence   Evidence tending to establish guilt or from which a fact-trier can establish guilt  
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Presumptive evidence   Evidence deemed true and sufficient unless discredited by other evidence  
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Prima facie evidence   Evidence that will establish a fact or sustain a judgement unless contradictory evidence is produced  
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Probative evidence   Evidence that tend to prove or disprove a point in issue  
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Rebuttal evidence   Evidence offered to disprove or contradict the evidence presented by the opposing party  
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Tainted evidence   Evidence that is inadmissible because it was directly or indirectly obtained by illegal means  
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Direct transfer   Transferred from object A to object B  
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Indirect transfer   Involves one or more intermediate objects  
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Contamination   Any transfers that take place after the action surrounding the crime has stopped  
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Class   Group of objects with similar characteristics  
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Questioned evidence   Evidence for which the original source is unknown  
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Known evidence   Evidence for which the original source is known  
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Coincidental Associations   Two things which have previously never been in contact with each other have items on them which any anatomically indistinguishable at a certain class level  
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Type I error   False positive, saying something is blood when it is not  
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Type II error   False negative, saying something is not blood when it is  
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Simple magnification system   A single lens used to form an enlarged image of an object  
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Compound magnification system   Magnification occurs in two stages  
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Lens   Material that bends light in a known and predictable manner  
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Focal length   Distance between two points of focus on either side of the lens  
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Resolution   Minimum distance two things can be separated and still be distinguished as two objects (d=λ/2NA)  
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Numerical aperture   Angular measure of the lens' light-gathering ability (NA=nsinμ) μ being half the angle of aperture of the objective  
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Eyepiece/ocular   Lens that an observer looks into  
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Field of view   The area seen through the eyepieces  
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10x/0.25na/170mm/0.17Plan Apo   10 times magnification, 0.25 numerical aperture, 170mm tube length, 0.17mm recommended coverslip thickness, plan apochromat corrected  
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Condenser   Used to obtain a bright, even field of view and improve image resolution  
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Kohler illumination   Sets light rays parallel throughout the lens system  
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Refractive index   N = c/v, where c is the speed of light in a vacuum (186000 miles per second) and v is the speed of light in the material  
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Snell's Law   n1sinθ1=n2sinθ2  
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Isotropic   Optically the same throughout, only one refractive index  
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Anisotropic   Optical properties that vary with orientation of incoming light, has an ordinary and extraordinary ray  
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Birefringence   Division of light into the ordinary and extraordinary ray when it passes through certain types of material (n=ne-no)  
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Fluoresence   The luminescence of a substance excited by radiation, emission stops when the excitation stops  
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Phosphorescence   Characterized by long-lived emission  
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TEM   Transmission electron microscope  
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SEM   Scanning electron microscope  
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Electromagnetic radiation   Various types of energy in the form of waves  
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Wavelength   Distance between corresponding points on two adjacent waves (c=λ/v) where c is the speed of light, λ is the wavelength, and v is the frequency  
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Frequency   The number of waves that pass a given point in one second  
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Photon   Tiny packets of energy (E=hv or hc/λ)  
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Electromagnetic spectrum   High energy. Gamma, X-rays, Ultraviolet, Visible, Infared, Microwave, Radio. Low energy  
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Microspectrophotometry   Used for comparing colors, measures UV and visible light spectra  
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Beer's Law   Relates the amount of absorbing substance present to the quantity of absorbance of light  
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Analyte   Substance or substances being identified  
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Solvent   Liquid or liquid solution that is used to dissolve an analyte  
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Solute   Substance that is dissolved in a solvent  
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Partitioning   Competition of two solvents for an analyte  
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Adsorption   Process whereby a solid, liquid or gaseous analyte is attracted to the surface of a dissolving molecule  
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Gas chromatography   The most versatile form of chromatography  
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Electrophoresis   Type of chromatography that relies on the role of an electric field  
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Hairs   Fibrous growths that originate from the skin of mammals  
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Epidermis   Outer layer of the skin  
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Follicle   Structure within which hairs grow  
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Keratin   Tough, protein-based material from which hairs, nails, and horns are made  
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Keratinization   Hardening process of hair growth  
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Sebaceous glands   In the follicle, produces oils that coat hairs helping to keep them soft and pliable  
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Pili arrector   Tiny muscles that raise hairs  
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Anagen   First stage of hair growth, follicle produces new cells  
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Catagen   Second stage of hair growth, follicle begins to shut down production of cells  
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Melanin/Pigment   Small coloured granules that give hairs their particular color  
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Melanocytes   Specialized cells that produce melanin/pigment  
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Eumelanin   Dark brown pigment  
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Pheomelanin   Lighter pigment  
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Root bulb/club root   Root condenses into this during the catagen phase of hair growth  
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Telogen   Resting phase for hair growth, root is held in place only by a mechanical connection  
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Root   Portion that was formerly in the follicle  
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Tip   Distal-most portion of the hair  
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Shaft   Main portion of the hair  
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Cuticle   Series of overlapping series of scales that forma protective covering  
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Imbricate   Human scale pattern  
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Cortex   Structure that makes up the bulk of the hair  
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Cortical fusi   Small bubbles that may appear in the cortex  
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Ovoid bodies   Odd structures that look like large pigment granules and may appear irregularly in the cortex  
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Guard hairs   Large stiff hairs that make up the outer part of an animal's coat  
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Shield   Widening in guard hairs in the upper half of the shaft  
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Buckling   Abrupt change in direction of the hair shaft with or without a slight twist  
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Shouldering   Asymmetrical cross-section of hairs  
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Pili annulati   Hairs with colored rings  
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Monilethrix   Makes hairs look like strings of beads  
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Pili torti   Twisting of the hair along its length, creating a spiral morphology  
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Natural fiber   Any fiber that exists as a fiber in its natural state  
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Manufactured fiber   Any fiber derived by a process of manufacturing from any substance that, at any point, is not a fiber  
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Filaments   Type of fiber having indefinite or extreme length  
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Staple fibers   Natural fibers or cut lengths of filament 7/8 in - 8 in  
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Denier   Weight in grams of 9000 m of the material fibrous  
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Yarn   Term for continuous strands of textile fibers, filaments, or material in a form suitable for entangling to form a textile fabric  
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Plied yarn   Yarn composed of several smaller strands of yarn twisted together  
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Fabric   Textile structure produced by interlacing yarns, fibers, or filaments with substantial surface area relative to its thickness  
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Synthetic fibers   Manufactured fibers that are synthesized from a chemical compound  
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Soil   Contains both organic (humus) and inorganic (crushed rock and clay) material  
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Glass   Amorphous solid, usually transparent  
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Coatings   Any surface coating designed to protect, aesthetically improve, or provide some special quality, coloquially: paint  
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Paint   Suspension of pigments and additives designed to color of protect a surface  
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Binder   That portion of the coating that allows the pigment to be distributed across the surface  
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Vehicle   Solvents, resins, and other additives that form a continuous film, binding the pigment to the surface  
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Microtome   A device that holds a sample in place while a heavy and very sharp knife slices off sections a few tens of microns thick  
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Bertillonage   First system of identification, used anthropometric measurements  
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Friction ridges   Leave fingerprints, found on the palms, soles, and ends of fingers and toes  
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Patent print   Fingerprint in some medium, blood, clay, fresh paint  
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Latent print   Composed of the sweat and oils of the body that are transferred from the ridge pattern to some substrate  
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Minutiae   Ridge characteristics  
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Loop   One or more ridges entering from one side, curving back on themselves, and exiting the fingertip on the same side  
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Arch   Ridges enter the print, gradually rise, and exit the opposite side  
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Tented Arch   Arches with a pronounced sharp peak  
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Whorl   Have type lines and at least two deltas, can be plain, central pocket, double loop, and accidental  
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AFIS   Automated Fingerprint Identification System  
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Exemplar   Known, authentic writing sample  
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Requested writing   Writing samples taken from someone for the purpose of comparison with a questioned document  
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Non-requested writing   Examples of subject's writing taken in the normal course of personal or business transactions  
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Formal signature   Written carefully on an official document, name is not in doubt  
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Informal signature   Used in routine correspondence where you want the person to recognize the name but the spelling isn't important  
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Stylistic signature   Used in signing checks, credit card receipts, looks like a scribble  
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Document alterations   Obliterations, erasures, additional markings, indented writings, and charred documents  
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Obliteration   Overwriting of a sample of writing or printing with another writing instrument  
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Abrasive erasure   Removing writing with an abrasive eraser material  
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Chemical erasure   Dissolving or bleaching ink so it is no longer visible  
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Indented writing   An image of the writing on one or more pages below  
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ESDA   Electrostatic Detection Apparatus  
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Rifling   Series of lands and grooves down the inside of a gun barrel  
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Striations   Impressions of the interior barrel surface made on a bullet as it passes through the gun  
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Bore   Diameter of a circle that touches the tops of the lands  
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Caliber   Refers to the size of a particular ammunition cartride  
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Gauge   Diameter of the shotgun barrel  
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Firing pin impression   Mark made by the firing pin as it strikes the primer cap  
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Extraction/Ejection marks   Marks indicative of the method of cartridge extraction or ejection  
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Trigger pull   The force required to pull the trigger to the firing position  
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Gunshot residue   Cloud of molten metals, partially burned gunpowder flakes, smoke, and other microscopic debris expelled when the gun fires  
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Footwear impression   When a piece of footwear comes into contact with a recipient material or object  
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Imprint   Made when there is enough residue to leave an impression on the recipient surface  
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Frye   General acceptance within the particular scientific field to which it belongs  
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Daubert   Falsifiability, knowledge of error rates, peer review, general acceptance, general acceptance  
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