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color bar

color bar is the US standard spelling of colour bar.

Meaning of colour bar

Noun

colour bar (plural colour bars)

  1. (UK) The segregation of people of different colour or race, especially any barrier to black people participating in activities with white people.
    • That first morning at the firm, a pleasant young white secretary, Miss Lieberman, took me aside and said, ‘Nelson, we have no colour bar here at the law firm.’1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 83
    Synonyms:
    color line
  2. (UK) A pattern of varying tonal density that enables visual and numeric comparisons to be made across multiple printed sheets or pages.
  3. (UK) A layer of good jewellery-quality opal within a rough opal.

Forms of color bar

pluralcolor bars

Questions about color bar

What is color bar the US standard spelling of?
Color bar is the US standard spelling of colour bar.

Words near color bar in the dictionary

  1. color analyst
  2. color analysts
  3. color announcer
  4. color announcers
  5. color banding
  6. color bar
  7. color barrier
  8. color barriers
  9. color bars
  10. color bass
  11. color blind

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Adapted from Wiktionary: color bar (page history and authors); colour bar (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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