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barrier

a structure or object that impedes free movement

any condition that makes it difficult to make progress or to achieve an objective; "intolerance is a barrier to understanding"

anything serving to maintain separation by obstructing vision or access

Synonyms:

• abatis,
• advanced work,
• arch dam,
• backstop,
• balistraria,
• balustrade,
• bamboo curtain,
• bank,
• banquette,
• bar,
• barbed-wire entanglement,
• barbican,
• barrage,
• barricade,
• bartizan,
• bastion,
• battlement,
• bear-trap dam,
• beaver dam,
• blank wall,
• blind alley,
• blind gut,
• block,
• blockade,
• blockage,
• bolt,
• boom,
• bottleneck,
• boundary,
• brattice,
• breakwater,
• breastwork,
• brick wall,
• buffer,
• buffer state,
• bulkhead,
• bulwark,
• bumper,
• casemate,
• cecum,
• cheval-de-frise,
• choking,
• choking off,
• circumvallation,
• clog,
• cloison,
• cofferdam,
• collision mat,
• congestion,
• constipation,
• contravallation,
• costiveness,
• counterscarp,
• cul-de-sac,
• curtain,
• cushion,
• dam,
• dead end,
• defense,
• demibastion,
• diaphragm,
• dike,
• dissepiment,
• ditch,
• dividing line,
• dividing wall,
• division,
• drawbridge,
• earthwork,
• embankment,
• embolism,
• embolus,
• enclosure,
• entanglement,
• escarp,
• escarpment,
• fence,
• fender,
• fieldwork,
• fortalice,
• fortification,
• frontier,
• gate,
• glacis,
• gorge,
• gravity dam,
• groin,
• ha-ha,
• hindrance,
• hydraulic-fill dam,
• impasse,
• impediment,
• infarct,
• infarction,
• interseptum,
• iron curtain,
• jam,
• jetty,
• leaping weir,
• levee,
• limit,
• lock,
• logjam,
• loophole,
• lunette,
• machicolation,
• mantelet,
• mat,
• merlon,
• midriff,
• midsection,
• milldam,
• moat,
• mole,
• mound,
• obstacle,
• obstipation,
• obstruction,
• outwork,
• pad,
• padlock,
• palisade,
• panel,
• parados,
• parapet,
• paries,
• partition,
• party wall,
• portcullis,
• postern gate,
• property line,
• rail,
• railing,
• rampart,
• ravelin,
• redan,
• redoubt,
• roadblock,
• rock-fill dam,
• sally port,
• scarp,
• sconce,
• sealing off,
• seawall,
• separation,
• septulum,
• septum,
• shock pad,
• shutter dam,
• stockade,
• stone wall,
• stop,
• stoppage,
• strangulation,
• tenaille,
• vallation,
• vallum,
• wall,
• weir,
• wicket dam,
• work