bar code

noun

1. Also called: Universal Product Code.  UPC. 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

bar code

1. 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

Over a half-century, in many cases, they experienced job-transforming technologies—bar codes at Target, robots at Ford Motor—and the diversifying of workforces as more women stepped onto and climbed the management ladder.

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The DMV has added a digital security signature to one of the two bar codes on the back of the cards.

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For ticket inspections and to pass through barriers, the app will generate a bar code to scan.

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Election Assistance Commission to shift its guidance on voting machines banning the use of certain bar codes and quick-response codes, has been allowed to proceed.

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No more scrolling through your phone to find that bar code, or scrambling through your glove compartment to find that parking pass.

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