Barrier
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Barrier may refer to:
- Automatic full barriers, railway
- Barricade
- Crash barrier, highway
- Crowd control barrier, a type of temporary fencing
- Language barrier, culture/linguistics
- Mojo Barrier, a type of temporary fencing in festivals and concerts
- Noise barrier, noise prevention
- Road block
- Separation barrier, prevents the movement of people across a certain line or border or to separate two populations
- Sound barrier, a physical boundary stopping large objects from becoming supersonic
- Trade barrier, restriction of trade by government
- Vapor barrier, construction
In geography:
- Barrier, Voerendaal, a place in the municipality of Voerendaal, in southeastern Netherlands
- Barrier Bay, an open bay in Antarctica
- Coral reef
- Belize Barrier Reef
- Great Barrier Reef, Located in the Coral Sea off the coast of Queensland in north-east Australia
- Great Barrier Island is located in the north of New Zealand
- A misspelling of Barriere, British Columbia, a small community in Thompson-Nicola Regional District, British Columbia, Canada
- The Barrier, a lava dam in southwestern British Columbia, Canada
In other:
- Barrier (arcade game), a 1979 arcade game by Vectorbeam
- Barrier (computer science), a type of synchronization in parallel computing
- Barrier (pharmaceutical)
- Barrier, the US name for Bariera, a 1966 Polish film with Krzysztof Komeda, Jerzy Skolimowski, and others
- Smith Barrier, an American sports journalist
- Barrierfreeman, a fictional anime character
- barriers, a UK television series
Structures with the word Barrier in their name:
- Barrier Highway, a State highway in New South Wales, Australia
- Fitch Barrier
- A Jersey barrier (K-rail), a common type of concrete barrier first used in New Jersey to divide highway lanes
- Thames Barrier, a flood control structure on the River Thames in England
[edit] See also
- Barrière, French surname
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