footprint

Meanings

• a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface
  • "the police made casts of the footprints in the soft earth outside the window"
• a trace suggesting that something was once present or felt or otherwise important
  • "the footprints of an earlier civilization"
• the area taken up by some object
  • "the computer had a desktop footprint of 10 by 16 inches"

Synonyms

footmark, step