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Identikit picture

Identikit \Identikit\ prop. n. [trademark] A set of images containing a wide variety of facial features, such as noses, hairlines, chins, etc. on transparencies which can be overlayed in combinations to build up a picture of a person; it is used by police agencies to create concrete images of a crime suspect from the descriptions of witnesses; the image created with the kit is also called an Identikit, or more properly an Identikit picture. [Trademark]

Syn: Identikit picture.

Usage examples of "identikit picture".

No identikit picture was given, so I concluded that somebody had seen me from a distance.

PC Brooks opened the file folder he carried and the two constables compared the identikit picture to this new one.

Short of an Identikit picture, that's the best description he could give.

He had put the child's face together slowly in his mind after going through a mental putting-together of all the other children in his House --- like a slowly-formed identikit picture Corley had finally emerged.