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barrierless

barrierless adjective: lacking barriers.

Adjective

barrierless (not comparable)

  1. Lacking barriers
    • The world is increasingly barrierless.
    • High Mill crossing, at present gated and manually-operated, will become a barrierless rural-type crossing.1979 August, Michael Harris, “A line for all reasons: the North Yorkshire Moors Railway”, in Railway World, page 412
  2. (physical) Not requiring activation energy.
    • The reaction is then barrierless, ie, ΔG* = 0, and the rate constant is a maximum for the given λ (Figure 6).1992, R.A. Marcus, Prabha Siddarth, “Theory of Electron Transfer Reactions and Comparison with Experiments”, in Elise Kochanski, editor, Photoprocesses in Transition Metal Complexes, Biosystems, and...

Origin of barrierless

From barrier + -less.

Words formed from barrierless

Questions about barrierless

What does barrierless mean?
Barrierless means lacking barriers.
What part of speech is barrierless?
Barrierless is an adjective.

Words near barrierless in the dictionary

  1. barrier to entry
  2. barrier to trade
  3. barrier troops
  4. barriered
  5. barriering
  6. barrierless
  7. barrierlessly
  8. barrierlessness
  9. barrierlike
  10. barriers
  11. barriers to entry

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