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colour-coded

colour-coded adjective: having different colours so that people can distinguish them. Also the simple past and past participle of colour-code.

Adjective

colour-coded

  1. (UK) Having different colours so that people can distinguish them.
    • And a new airport-style system of colour-coded lounges to access platforms has been described as 'bewildering' by many non-regular users of the station, compounded by a lack of passenger information screens away from the main concourse.2020 July 29, Paul Stephen, “A new collaboration centred on New Street”, in Rail, page 54

Also used as

colour-coded is also the simple past and past participle of colour-code.

Questions about colour-coded

What does colour-coded mean?
Colour-coded means having different colours so that people can distinguish them.
What part of speech is colour-coded?
Colour-coded is an adjective.

Words near colour-coded in the dictionary

  1. colour wheels
  2. colour'd
  3. colour-blind
  4. colour-blindness
  5. colour-code
  6. colour-coded
  7. colour-codes
  8. colour-coding
  9. colour-coordinate
  10. colour-coordinated
  11. colour-fast

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