Barrier
A barrier or barricade is a physical structure which blocks or impedes something.
Barrier may also refer to:
Places
- Barrier, Kentucky, a community in the United States
- Barrier, Voerendaal, a place in the municipality of Voerendaal, Netherlands
- Barrier Bay, an open bay in Antarctica
- Barrier Canyon, the former name of Horseshoe Canyon (Utah)
- Barrier Lake, Alberta, Canada
- Barrier Mountain, the former name of Mount Baldy (Alberta)
- Barrier Ranges, a mountain range in New South Wales, Australia
- Division of Barrier, a former Australian Electoral Division in New South Wales
- The Barrier, a common synonym for the city of Broken Hill, New South Wales
- The Barrier Miner, the city's newspaper
- Barrier Highway, in Australia, from SA to NSW via Broken Hill
- The Barrier, a lava dam in British Columbia, Canada
- The Barrier (Kenya), an active shield volcano in Kenya
- The Barrier, an early name for the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica
Biology
- Blood-brain barrier, a biological barrier that prevents entry of harmful substances into the brain by selectively allowing some substances to pass through it
- Blood-testis barrier, the biological barrier between blood and testes
- Blood-placental barrier, the biological barrier between a pregnant person's blood and foetal blood (blood of the baby or babies)
- Blood-CSF barrier, the biological barrier between blood and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF; a.k.a. brain fluid)
- Blood–spinal cord barrier, the biological barrier between blood and the spinal cord
In arts and entertainment
Film
- The Barrier (1917 film), a lost 1917 American silent drama film
- The Barrier (1926 film), a silent film
- The Barrier (1937 film), an American film
- Barrier (film), a 1966 Polish film, released in the U.S. as Barrier
- The Barrier (1972 film), an Egyptian film; see Gheorghe Dinică
- The Barrier (1979 film), a Bulgarian film
- The Barrier (1990 film), a Bahraini film
Games
- Barrier (video game), a 1979 arcade game by Vectorbeam
Music
- Barriers (album), by Frank Iero (2019)
- "Barrier", a 1985 song by Simon Townshend on the album Moving Target
- "Barriers", a song by Suede on their 2013 album Bloodsports
- "Barrier", a track from the soundtrack of the 2015 video game Undertale by Toby Fox
Television
- Barriers (TV series), a UK television series
- The Barrier (TV series), a 2020 Spanish-language dystopian drama TV series
Other uses
- Barrier (surname)
- Barrier (computer science), a type of synchronization in parallel computing
- Barrier (video game), a 1979 maze arcade game
- Barrier Air, a New Zealand airline
- Barrier cream, hand cream
- USS Barrier, a minesweeper in the U.S. Navy
See also
- Concrete barrier (disambiguation)
- Great Barrier (disambiguation)
- All pages with titles containing Barrier
- Barrière (disambiguation)
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