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• bar code

Compound of bar +‎ code. First attested in 1963 for noun sense 1.^[1]

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbɑː.kəʊd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɑɹ.koʊd/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)kəʊd
• Hyphenation: bar‧code

barcode (plural barcodes)

2. Any set of machine-readable parallel bars or concentric circles, varying in width, spacing, or height, encoding information according to a symbology. [from 1960s]
4. (genetics) A portion of a gene that identifies a particular species.
6. (self-harm, slang) An instance of self-harm, typically with multiple parallel cuts along a line, similar in form to a machine barcode.

• → Afrikaans: staafkode (calque)
• → Dutch: barcode
• → Dutch: streepjescode (calque)
  • → Afrikaans: strepieskode (calque)

barcode (third-person singular simple present barcodes, present participle barcoding, simple past and past participle barcoded)

1. (transitive) To apply a barcode (machine-readable code) to.

• UPC, ISBN, EAN
• QR code, QR

• barcode on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• DNA barcoding on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• brocade

From English barcode.

barcode

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) barcode

• code

• English Loanwords in Hong Kong Cantonese

Borrowed from English barcode.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑrˌkoː.də/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: bar‧co‧de

barcode m (plural barcodes, no diminutive)

1. barcode

   Synonym: streepjescode