automated fingerprint identification system
US
noun
A computer system which automatically compares a fingerprint (of a suspect, from a crime scene, etc.) to those stored on a database, to determine if there is one that matches; abbreviated AFIS.
Origin
1960s; earliest use found in The New York Times.
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