Identikit

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Identikit
       n : a likeness of a person's face constructed from descriptions
           given to police; uses a set of transparencies of various
           facial features that can be combined to build up a
           picture of the person sought [syn: {Identikit picture}]