barcode
verbEtymology Compound of bar + code. First attested in 1963 for noun sense 1.
1
To apply a barcode (machine-readable code) to.
barcode
nounUK /ˈbɑː.kəʊd/ · US /ˈbɑɹ.koʊd/
Etymology Compound of bar + code. First attested in 1963 for noun sense 1.
1
Any set of machine-readable parallel bars or concentric circles, varying in width, spacing, or height, encoding information according to a symbology.
3
Slang An instance of self-harm, typically with multiple parallel cuts along a line, similar in form to a machine barcode.
- Derived terms
- barcoded, barcoder, barcode reader, barcode scanner, barcoding, biobarcode, metabarcode, minibarcode, nanobarcode