footprint

Noun

• the area taken up by some object
  • the computer had a desktop footprint of 10 by 16 inches
    

• a trace suggesting that something was once present or felt or otherwise important
  • the footprints of an earlier civilization
    

• a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface
  • the police made casts of the footprints in the soft earth outside the window
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  footmark , step