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barn

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: barn

1
 n
an outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals
2
 n
(physics) a unit of nuclear cross section; the effective circular area that one particle presents to another as a target for an encounter
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: barn
1

n an outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals

Types:
byre, cow barn, cowbarn, cowhouse, cowshed
a barn for cows
tithe barn
barn originally built to hold tithes paid in kind and common in England
Type of:
farm building
a building on a farm
2

n (physics) a unit of nuclear cross section; the effective circular area that one particle presents to another as a target for an encounter

Synonyms:
b
Type of:
area unit, square measure
a system of units used to measure areas
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