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Level 2 detail

The intermediate spatial scale: individual minutia (ridge endings, bifurcations, lakes, dots, islands, deltas, cores). Carries the principal discriminative weight in a fingerprint comparison. The level at which AFIS encoding and likelihood ratio research operate.

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