Universal Product Code: see bar code bar code, computer coding system that uses a printed pattern of lines or bars to identify products, mail and packages, customer accounts, and the like. Bar codes are read by optically scanning the printed pattern and using a computer program to decode the pattern.
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Universal Product Code (UPC)

Standard bar code used to identify grocery and other retail merchandise. In the UPC system, the five digits on the left are assigned to a particular manufacturer or maker and the five digits on the right are used by that manufacturer to identify a specific type or make of product.

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(computer science)

A 10-digit bar code on the outside of a package for electronic scanning at supermarket checkout counters; each digit is represented by the ratio of the widths of adjacent stripes and white areas.

The corresponding combinations of binary digits into which the scanned bars are converted for computer processing that provides continuously updated inventory data and printout of the register tape at the checkout counter.

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Motorola estimates that a specific type of bar code called the Universal Product Code is used more than 10 billion times a day in applications that service 25 industries, including packaged goods, food services and medicine.

35 years later, bar codes, and scanning, are everywhere by Network World Middle East

Before you accept that good-looking coupon, check out if it contains the mandatory UPC or Universal Product Code - those familiar bars on every trade item you see in stores.

Are Those Office Depot Coupons for Real? Here's How to Avoid Coupon ... by Adrianne Sedgwick / Law community

It also covers the resulting emergence of the locally managed Universal Product Code and specifications now being trialled by governments in seven East Asian countries.

RFID growth down on the farm? by Label & Narrow Web

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