bio-code
A biochemical signal or marker, especially one used for security purposes.
Noun
- A biochemical signal or marker, especially one used for security purposes.
- Security features now being incorporated by the company include bar codes, deliberate errors, special background designs, micro-printing, UV-recognition and the use of bio-codes. - 1998, Apparel International: The...
- The covert methods used to differentiate genuine products from fakes include special ink, bio-codes and bank-note-style design features recognizable to the legitimate drug manufacturers. - 2002, Far Eastern Economic...
- Someone will eventually figure out the secrets of Orson's vision. But no one will be able to reproduce it. He's made sure of that with the bio-codes and micro-bio-infusers. - 2004, Valerie Connelly, Sidetracks, →ISBN,...
- A signal consisting of a biological action.
- Some of the sad, intriguing varieties-of this phenomenon which have been documented in Nigeria include: (i) Illegal exchange of information, written or verbal (for example, by copying or giraffing,' use of drums, flutes...
- Muse willed the change, swallowing and carefully constricting the epiglottis in a series of timed bio-codes that had taken her a long time to master. - 2011, Gabriel S. de Anda, Scissors, Rock and Paper Doll, →ISBN:
Forms
Verb
- To mark using a bio-code.
- A system marking fuel with a chemical (bio-coding) has been put in place as a way of reducing fuel smuggling into the country. - 2000, Uganda Parliament, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard):
- Kerosene is currently bio-coded and there are already penalties for such malpractices, but detecting the presence of kerosene in other oil products is difficult for the common person because it is colourless. - 2005,...
- He could ensure the door remained closed; that bit was easy. It was bio-coded and would respond only to him, but there was no way to ensure that she wouldn't yell and scream. - 2013, Shiv Ramdas, Domechild, →ISBN: