barrierless
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- barrier-less
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barrierless (not comparable)
- Lacking barriers
- The world is increasingly barrierless.
- 1979 August, Michael Harris, “A line for all reasons: the North Yorkshire Moors Railway”, in Railway World, page 412:
- High Mill crossing, at present gated and manually-operated, will become a barrierless rural-type crossing.
- 2021 August 25, “Network News: New warnings to the public after trespass and near-miss incidents”, in RAIL, number 938, page 13:
- In 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.
- (physical chemistry) Not requiring activation energy.
- 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:
- The reaction is then barrierless, ie, ΔG* = 0, and the rate constant is a maximum for the given λ (Figure 6).
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