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• color code (American English)
• colour-code

colour code (plural colour codes) (British spelling)

1. Any system where colours are used to categorize elements of sets.
2. An individual mapping of a colour to an element in such a set.

• false colour
• code blue
• code brown
• code red
• code yellow

colour code (third-person singular simple present colour codes, present participle colour coding, simple past and past participle colour coded)

1. (transitive, British spelling) To mark items with a colour code as a means of sorting.