facial recognition
Chinese meaning
人脸识别
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Example
The DHS plans to give local police a facial recognition app to identify suspects in real time.
美国国土安全部计划向地方警察提供一款人脸识别应用,以便实时识别嫌疑人。
Background ✎
DHS
Roots · etymology
拉丁 facies(脸形/外观)+ cognoscere(认识/知晓),合义再次辨认出某人
- faci-(脸,拉丁 facies) + -al(形容词后缀);re-(再次) + cogni-(认知,拉丁 cognoscere) + -tion(名词后缀)
Collocations
- facial recognition technology / facial recognition software / facial recognition database

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