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bar code
noun
- commerce a machine-readable arrangement of numbers and parallel lines of different widths printed on a package, which can be electronically scanned at a checkout to register the price of the goods and to activate computer stock-checking and reordering Also calledUniversal Product CodeUPC
bar code
- A series of parallel lines that can be read by an optical scanner and decoded by a computer into usable information. The ten-line Universal Product Code (UPC) on the packaging of retail items is an example of this. The key to this code is the variation in line thickness and separation.
Example Sentences
Customers use the new postboxes by scanning a bar code on the parcel and dropping it into a drawer - all powered by small solar panels on the top of the box.
In Shasta and Nevada counties, flecks of ink marring the bar codes printed on some ballots prevented voting machines made by Hart InterCivic from correctly reading those ballots.
Police say they were the dummy crates, which bore the same resemblance and bar codes as the ones that had been intercepted.
Unflattering references to the technology liken the process to a supermarket checkout - where your face becomes a bar code.
The fakes at the regulator’s warehouse include bar codes and packaging that appear similar in color, size and shape to legitimate pens.
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