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colour code

British  

noun

  1. a system of easily distinguishable colours, as for the identification of electrical wires or resistors

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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"All the wires are basically white, there are too many to colour code, so therefore each wire has a unique alpha-numeric identity code printed on it," Dr Dickinson added.

From BBC Apr. 10, 2026

Firstly, it has to be made, mainly in two ways, each marked by a colour code.

From BBC May 23, 2022

“I colour code them so when you’ve got conversations you know who’s speaking when.”

From The Guardian Nov. 16, 2019

Alternative schemes could be obtained by replacing magic-state distillation with 3D T-gate stations and/or the surface code substrate with a colour code substrate.

From Nature Sep. 12, 2017

However, 2D colour code decoding is also more computationally complex than surface code decoding52.

From Nature Sep. 12, 2017

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