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barrier meaning

EN[ˈbæɹɪə(ɹ)] [-æɹiə(ɹ)]
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WBarrier
  • A barrier or barricade is a physical structure which blocks or impedes something.
  • Barrier may also refer to:

    Definition of barrier in English Dictionary

  • NounPLbarriersSUF-ier
    1. A structure that bars passage.
      1. An obstacle or impediment.
        1. America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 ([…]): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.
      2. A boundary or limit.
        1. (grammar) A node (in government and binding theory) said to intervene between other nodes A and B if it is a potential governor for B, c-commands B, and does not c-command A.
          1. (physiology) A separation between two areas of the body where specialized cells allow the entry of certain substances but prevent other substances to enter.
          2. More Examples
            1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
              • One incident in May was a possible threat indicator when a Jersey barrier on the east perimeter was rammed by a slow-moving car.
              • The New Jersey barrier became the most widely used and gave its name to the generic barrier type.
              • The same result was found when measuring the length of Jersey barrier or guardrail within the 800 m buffer in high- and low-kill UVC zones.
            2. Used in the Ending of Sentence
              • The driver lost control and the car struck the tire barrier.
              • One model solved this issue by pseudotyping a lentivirus vector with rabies glycoprotein, which displays neurospecificity and is able to naturally cross the blood-brain barrier.
          • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
            1. Nouns
              • Countable nouns
            Related Links:
            1. en barriers
            2. en barriered
            3. en barrierlike
            4. en barrierless
            5. en barrier reef
            Source: Wiktionary

            Meaning of barrier for the defined word.

            Grammatically, this word "barrier" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.
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