Barcode

Rarity: Rare

A topic known well beyond its field, found in many languages.

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Notion

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Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

A barcode or bar code is a method of representing data in a visual, machine-readable symbolic form. Initially, barcodes represented data by varying the widths, spacings and sizes of parallel lines.

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