Barrier

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Barrier may refer to:

• Automatic full barriers, railway
• Barricade
• Crash barrier, highway
• Language barrier, culture/linguistics
• 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

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