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Jersey barrier en · NOUN

Etymology

From New Jersey (the location where the most popular design of such barriers originated) + barrier.

Meanings

1. A modular concrete or plastic barrier designed to create walls that separate lanes of traffic or to block traffic.
   • At night this gap is closed off by a simple concrete Jersey barrier, and the pit is left to those outside the wire. 2013, Christine Dumaine Leche, Outside the Wire: American Soldiers' Voices from Afghanistan, →ISBN:
   • One incident in May was a possible threat indicator when a Jersey barrier on the east perimeter was rammed by a slow-moving car. 2013, Richard Kirchner, Surveillance and Threat Detection: Prevention versus Mitigation, →ISBN, page 105:
   • A Jersey barrier is highly effective at turning a vehicle back into its parallel lane of travel, but much less effective at dealing with a perpendicular force hit. 2007, Ellis John, John W. Lee, Police Analysis and Planning for Homicide Bombings, →ISBN, page 198:
   • His squad had entered the first room of the house and, as they were about to enter the second room, they were engaged by a couple insurgents who were hiding behind a concrete Jersey barrier they'd brought into the house. 2006, John McCool, Kendall D. Gott, Eyewitness to War, Volume. 1: U S Army in Operation AL FAJR: An Oral History, →ISBN:
2. A Jersey wall; a wall composed of Jersey barriers that separates lanes of traffic.
   • The same result was found when measuring the length of Jersey barrier or guardrail within the 800 m buffer in high- and low-kill UVC zones. 2008, John A. Bissonette, Patricia Catherine Cramer, Evaluation of the Use and Effectiveness of Wildlife Crossings, →ISBN, page 60:
   • The paper also included a completed scene diagram, included a wrecked tractor and semi-trailer, damaged asphalt area, gouges, skip lines, and displaced Jersey barrier sections. 2013, Donald E. Struble, Automotive Accident Reconstruction: Practices and Principles, →ISBN:
   • The freeway section configuration of the highway was constructed on embankment and provides for two lanes of traffic in each direction divided by a Jersey Barrier along its entire length creating significant challenges for maintenance of traffic for any work perfomed within its limits. 2007, Khaled Mahmoud, Innovations in Bridge Engineering Technology, →ISBN, page 187:
   • According to the Hunterdon County Historical Society, frequent accidents on the steep road over Jugtown Mountain in Hunterdon County led to the first installation of the Jersey barrier. 2013, Linda J. Barth, A History of Inventing in New Jersey: From Thomas Edison to the Ice Cream Cone, →ISBN, page 155:

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Synonyms

K-rail