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Date: 1900-2000
Origin: e (short for electronic) + -fit (as in Photofit)

E-FIT

 noun
     
Related topics: Computers
E-FIT [countable] British English trademark
TD a picture, made by using a computer, of a person who the police think was responsible for a crime, which they show on television or the Internet in order to try and catch the person
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