barn

English Thesaurus

1. an outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals (noun.artifact)

hypernym	:	farm building,
definition	:	a building on a farm (noun.artifact)

hyponym	:	byre, cow barn, cowbarn, cowhouse, cowshed,
definition	:	a barn for cows (noun.artifact)

hyponym	:	tithe barn,
definition	:	barn originally built to hold tithes paid in kind and common in England (noun.artifact)

part holonym	:	hayloft, haymow, mow,
definition	:	a loft in a barn where hay is stored (noun.artifact)

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

hypernym	:	area unit, square measure,
definition	:	a system of units used to measure areas (noun.quantity)

domain category	:	atomic physics, nuclear physics, nucleonics,
definition	:	the branch of physics that studies the internal structure of atomic nuclei (noun.cognition)

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