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colour coding

colour coding is the present participle of colour code.

Meaning of colour code

Verb

colour code (third-person singular simple present colour codes, present participle colour coding, simple past and past participle colour coded)

  1. (UK, transitive) To mark items with a colour code as a means of sorting.

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Questions about colour coding

What is colour coding the present participle of?
Colour coding is the present participle of colour code.

Words near colour coding in the dictionary

  1. colour charge
  2. colour charges
  3. colour code
  4. colour coded
  5. colour codes
  6. colour coding
  7. colour commentaries
  8. colour commentary
  9. colour commentator
  10. colour commentators
  11. colour coordinate

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Adapted from Wiktionary: colour coding (page history and authors); colour code (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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