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{{Short description|System for displaying information by using different colors}} {{Use American English|date=October 2021}} {{for-multi|the computer science and graph theory method|Color-coding|other uses}} {{excessive examples|date=August 2023}} [[File:25 pair color code chart.svg|upright|thumb|[[25-pair color code]] chart used in certain kinds of wiring]] A '''color code''' is a system for encoding and representing non-color information with [[color]]s to facilitate communication. This information tends to be [[Categorical variable|categorical]] (representing unordered/qualitative categories) though may also be sequential (representing an ordered/quantitative variable).
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