BARREL

Barrel

A barrel is one of several units of volume. There are dry barrels, fluid barrels, oil barrels, etc. The volume of some barrel units is double others, with various volumes in the range of about, due to historical reasons. Since medieval times the measure barrel has been used with different meanings around Europe, from about 100 litres to above 1000 in special cases. The name comes from medieval French baril. In most countries, its use is mainly obsolete, superseded by SI units. Thus the meaning of corresponding words in other languages normally refers to a physical barrel, not a known ...

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BARREL

Balloon Array for RBSP Relativistic Electron Losses is a NASA mission operated out of Dartmouth College that works with the Van Allen Probes mission . The BARREL project will launch 20 balloons from Antarctica during each of two balloon campaigns in January 2013 and January 2014. Unlike the football-field-sized balloons typically launched at the Poles, these are each just 90 feet in diameter.

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barrel

Noun

  1. A round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends or heads. Sometimes applied to a similar cylindrical container made of metal, usually called a drum.
  2. The quantity which constitutes a full barrel. This varies for different articles and also in different places for the same article, being regulated by custom or by law. A barrel of wine is 31 ½ gallons; a barrel of flour is 196 pounds; of beer 31 gallons; of ale 32 gallons; of crude oil 42 gallons.
  3. A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case;
  4. A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged.
  5. A tube.
  6. The hollow basal part of a feather.
  7. The part of a clarinet which connects the mouthpiece and upper joint, and looks rather like a barrel (1).
  8. A wave that breaks with a hollow compartment.
  9. A waste receptacle.
  10. The ribs and belly of a horse or pony.
  11. A jar.
  12. Any of the dark-staining regions in the somatosensory cortex of rodents, etc., where somatosensory inputs from the contralateral side of the body come in from the thalamus.

Verb

  1. To put or to pack in a barrel or barrels.
  2. To move quickly or in an uncontrolled manner.
    He came barrelling around the corner and I almost hit him.


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