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personal identity verification (PIV) card

Definitions:

  A physical artifact (e.g., identity card, “smart” card) issued to an individual that contains a PIV Card application that stores identity credentials (e.g., photograph, cryptographic keys, digitized fingerprint representation) so that the claimed identity of the cardholder can be verified against the stored credentials.
Sources:
FIPS 201-3 under Personal Identity Verification (PIV) Card

  A physical artifact (e.g., identity card, “smart” card) issued to an individual, which contains a PIV Card application that stores indentity credentials (e.g., photograph, cryptographic keys, digitized fingerprint representation) so that the claimed identity of the cardholder can be verified against stored credentials by another person (human-readable and -verifiable) or an automated process (computer-readable and -verifiable).
Sources:
NIST SP 1800-12b under personal identity verification (card)