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False Acceptance Rate

nouncandidate·updated May 9, 2026

The measure of the likelihood that the biometric security system will incorrectly accept an access attempt by an unauthorized user. A system’s false acceptance rate typically is stated as the ratio of the number of false acceptances divided by the number of identification attempts.

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Classifications

Entity Type

Metric95%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Sensitivity

85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Information Class

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Variants

acronym
FAR
plural
False Acceptance Rates
possessive
False Acceptance Rate's
pluralpossessive
False Acceptance Rates'