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bar code
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bar code
noun
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▪ Next month some practical bar code hardware and software will be described.
▪ The do-it-yourself bar code user therefore has to write his or her own reader software.
▪ There is a bar code plus thirteen digit number on the front of this copy of Everyday Electronics.
▪ To read in such a small bar code successfully requires a very high degree of resolution.
▪ When a bar code is read, all that is fed into the computer system is the same number.
▪ Without this massive data base, all you read in from the bar code is a meaningless number.
Wiktionary
bar code

n. (alternative spelling of barcode English)

WordNet
bar code

n. code consisting of a series of vertical bars of variable width that are scanned by a laser; printed on consumer product packages to identify the item for a computer that provides the price and registers inventory information [syn: Universal Product Code]

Usage examples of "bar code".

Like everything else about this bank, this crate was industrial-metal clasps, a bar code sticker on top, and molded heavyduty handle.

Like everything else about this bank, this crate was industrial-metal clasps, a bar code sticker on top, and molded heavy-duty handle.

Her chest glitters like a general's with a hundred little ribbons and medals, except each rectangle is not a ribbon, it is a bar code.

A bar code with an ID number that gets her into a different business, highway, or FOQNE.

Last night you were all talking about getting bar code tattoos, and you kept saying the word 'bar code' over and over, and I thought I was going to go berserk with love.

No cover could ever stand up to even a casual investigation, much less an in-depth one, and that bar code could someday mean that the immigration officer would get a flashing light on his panel, which would be followed by the appearance of a policeman or two.

Dale could see the price sticker with its bar code still on the back of the notepad.

There was already a driver in the forward cabin, liveried and shaven-headed with the bar code of his employer printed above his left ear.

Perhaps there had been a major foul-up in security and two ID tags had been issued with the same bar code.