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E-fit
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E-FIT [ˈiːfɪt]
n™
1. (Electronics & Computer Science / Communications & Information) a technique which uses psychological principles and computer technology to generate a likeness of a face: used by the police to trace suspects from witnesses' descriptions
2. (Electronics & Computer Science / Communications & Information) an image generated by this technique
[from Electronic Facial Identification Technique]
Translations
E-fit [ˈiːfɪt] N → fotorrobot f digital, retrato m robot digital
E-fit
n → Computer-Phantombild nt
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Police were ridiculed when they released the world's worst efit picture to help solve an eight-month-old murder case.
EFITS THE BILL! World's worst pic does trick by The Mirror (London, England)
A SHOPWORKER held at knife point has helped police draw an efit of one of her attackers.
HUNT FOR KNIFE THUGS IN SHOP RAID by Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)
CAPTION(S): HELP FIND HIM: Police today released this efit, top left, of a thief who targeted mum-to-be Cheryl Wardle as she walked to work at Teesside Park
Do you know this man? by Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England)
 
 
 
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