up Barrier or barrier in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A barrier or barricade is a physical structure which blocks or impedes something. Barrier may...
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Barrier islands are a coastal landform, a type of dune system and sand island, where an area of sand has been formed by wave and tidal action parallel...
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The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system, composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over 2,300 kilometres...
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Israeli barrier may refer to: Israel–Gaza barrier Israeli West Bank barrier Israel–Egypt barrier This disambiguation page lists articles associated with...
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The Gaza–Israel barrier (sometimes called the Iron Wall) is a border barrier located on the Israeli side of the Gaza–Israel border. Before the Israel–Hamas...
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The sound barrier or sonic barrier is the large increase in aerodynamic drag and other undesirable effects experienced by an aircraft or other object when...
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A flood barrier, surge barrier or storm surge barrier is a specific type of floodgate, designed to prevent a storm surge or spring tide from flooding...
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The Thames Barrier is a retractable barrier system built to protect the floodplain of most of Greater London from exceptionally high tides and storm surges...
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In constrained optimization, a field of mathematics, a barrier function is a continuous function whose value increases to infinity as its argument approaches...
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The blood–brain barrier (BBB) is a highly selective semipermeable border of endothelial cells that regulates the transfer of solutes and chemicals between...
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