AFIS

American

[ey-fis] / ˈeɪ fɪs /

noun

Digital Technology.

Automated Fingerprint Identification System: a computerized methodology used to analyze digitized images of individual fingerprints and compare them to a database of stored images, in search of a potential exact or partial match.

AFIS British

noun

Automated Fingerprint Identification System: a computer system that scans fingerprints from crime scenes and compares them with millions of others around the world

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So does Afis Adewale, another tailor, cutting cloth for a new outfit at a roadside shop in Ikeja neighbourhood in Lagos.

From Reuters

States are fragmenting; a self-proclaimed caliphate has taken deep roots in Syria and Iraq and now has a presence in many more countries around the world; a rising, still-revolutionary Iran is using proxy forces to destabilize nearly every Arab state; the old order embodied by the secular dynasties of the Mubaraks, Assads and Gadd afis is shattered.

From Washington Post

Cela fous fera misere Que she ne feux bas see; So, vollow mes gonseilles, Et brenez mon afis.

From Project Gutenberg

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