Identi-Kit
[ahy-den-ti-kit, ih-den-] /aɪˈdɛn tɪˌkɪt, ɪˈdɛn-/
Trademark.
1.
a brand name for a kit containing drawings of hairlines, eyes, noses, chins, etc., in a wide variety of shapes and sizes, used by law-enforcement agencies to construct a composite picture of a suspect from descriptions provided by witnesses.
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