Barrier vs Septum - What's the difference?
barrier | septum |
A structure that bars passage.
An obstacle or impediment.
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A boundary or limit.
(anatomy) A wall separating two cavities; a partition; as, the nasal septum.
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(botany) A partition that separates the cells of a fruit.
(mycology) A partition that separates the cells of a (septated) fungus.
(zoology) One of the radial calcareous plates of a coral.
(zoology) One of the transverse partitions dividing the shell of a mollusk, or of a rhizopod, into several chambers.
(zoology) One of the transverse partitions dividing the body cavity of an annelid.
As nouns the difference between barrier and septum
is that barrier is a structure that bars passage while septum is (anatomy) a wall separating two cavities; a partition; as, the nasal septum.barrier
English
(wikipedia barrier)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier . But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 ([…]): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.}}
Derived terms
* barrier reef * color barrier * crash barrier * diffusion-barrier * half-barrier * ice barrier * language barrier * racial barrier * sound barrier * tilt barrier * tire barrier * toll barrierseptum
English
(wikipedia septum)Alternative forms
* (l) *Noun
(en-noun)- Deviated septum , a shift from the midline that commonly occurs in normal growth, is present in most adults.