Meanings
- not comparableLacking barriers
The world is increasingly barrierless.
2 more examples
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 412In Burneside in the Lake District on July 29, an incident took place at a barrierless level crossing on the Windermere branch that has been described by senior railway staff as one of the closest near misses they've ever seen.
2021 August 25, “Network News: New warnings to the public after trespass and near-miss incidents”, in RAIL, number 938, page 13 - not comparablephysicalchemistryNot 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 Other Molecules, page 63
Origin
- Englishbarrier
- Proto-Indo-European*lewh₁-
- Proto-Indo-European*lewHs-
- Proto-Germanic*leusaną
- Proto-Germanic*lausaz
- Englishbarrierless
Translations
Finnish esteetön
- esteetönTranslations
German barrierefrei
- barrierefreiTranslations
Polish bezbarierowy
- bezbarierowyTranslations
Cite this entry
barrierless. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/barrierless
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