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Noun: barn  baa(r)n
  1. An outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed, or housing farm animals
    "The old red barn stood at the edge of the wheat field"
     
  2. (physics) a unit of nuclear cross section; the effective circular area that one particle presents to another as a target for an encounter
    "The physicist measured the collision probability in barns";
    - b

Derived forms: barns

Type of: area unit, farm building, square measure

Encyclopedia: Barn, West Virginia