footprint.

1. The area of ground occupied by a building, structure, or object.

2. A mark or impression made by a foot.

3. The extent of a person's or activity's impact, especially on the environment or a digital record.

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Words that belong together

• building footprint
• compact footprint

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The new design reduced the building's footprint without losing usable rooms.

Usage notes

Primary category: architecture / spatial description. Forms: Singular footprint; plural footprints. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: moderately common.