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ALL meanings of identikit

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  • noun identikit A picture of a person, especially one sought by the police, reconstructed from typical facial features according to witnesses' descriptions. 1
  • noun identikit composite portrait of a criminal 1
  • countable noun identikit An identikit or an identikit picture is a drawing of the face of someone the police want to question. It is made from descriptions given to them by witnesses to a crime. Compare e-fit, , Photofit. 0
  • noun identikit a set of transparencies of various typical facial characteristics that can be superimposed on one another to build up, on the basis of a description, a picture of a person sought by the police 0
  • noun identikit (as modifier) 0
  • noun identikit artificially created by copying different elements in an attempt to form a whole 0
  • adjective identikit like or suggesting a composite picture, as of traits or qualities arbitrarily put together to form a type 0
  • noun identikit A picture of a person, reconstructed from strips showing facial features selected to match witnesses' descriptions; used by the police to build a likeness of a person sought for a crime. 0
  • noun identikit A composite sketch generated by a sketch artist, software, or a box of facial features on transparent foils that police officers and other public service professionals use to create a likeness of a person from a witness description. 0
  • adjective identikit (Informal) (chiefly derogatory) Indistinguishable from each other. 0
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