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barrier: fish trap
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

barrier: any obstruction to the spread of fire,typically an area or strip devoid of combustible material
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

barrier: the potential difference between metal and a semiconductor,or between regions within a semiconductor material,arising from difference in the equilibrium values of the Fermi levels
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

barrier: gear,made of various materials(stakes,branches,reeds,netting,etc.),usually constructed in tidal waters.Differs from the fixed gillnets which,when the tide ebbs,may eventually allow the fish not entangled or gilled to pass freely underneath their bottom line
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

barrier: a part providing protection against direct contact from any usual direction of access
Category: Building industry

barrier: 'fire separation' means a construction assembly that acts as a -- against the spread of fire....'Fire stop' means a draft-tight --...that acts to retard the passage of smoke and flame.
Category: Management in the public and private sector

barrier: a co-ordinated series of obstacles designed or employed to canalize,direct,restrict,delay or stop the movement of an opposing force,and to impose additional losses in personnel,time and equipment on the opposing force
Category: Defense

barrier-free: free of obstacles hindering the movement of disabled persons to all public areas within a building
Category: General

barriers: a physical means of separating persons from the robot restricted work envelope
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

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