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color bar

NOUN
discriminatory barrier separating nonwhite people from white people
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The most useful change to the statement is a color bar chart that shows the estimated monthly retirement payments you’d get each year starting at age 62 when you first become eligible.

From Washington Post • Nov. 5, 2021

That’s the name for the test images — typically of a white woman and a color bar — used since the 1920s for film processing calibrations.

From New York Times • Oct. 7, 2021

Thomas’ show has eight austere wall pieces featuring flat fields of color, often laid out like a TV color bar test pattern.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2020

What other thought does the man who shattered baseball’s color bar need to leave us with?

From Washington Times • Jun. 25, 2014

Zubeida was the wife of my friend Cassim Patel, a member of the Indian Congress, and she was without any sense of color bar whatsoever.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela