jersey barrierとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• jersey barrier
• New Jersey barrier

語源

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

名詞

Jersey barrier (複数形 Jersey barriers)

1. A modular concrete or plastic barrier designed to create walls that separate lanes of traffic or to block traffic.
   • 2013, Richard Kirchner, Surveillance and Threat Detection: Prevention versus Mitigation, →ISBN, page 105:

     One incident in May was a possible threat indicator when a Jersey barrier on the east perimeter was rammed by a slow-moving car.

   • 2006, John McCool & Kendall D. Gott, Eyewitness to War, Volume. 1: U S Army in Operation AL FAJR: An Oral History, →ISBN:

     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.

   • 2013, Christine Dumaine Leche, Outside the Wire: American Soldiers' Voices from Afghanistan, →ISBN:

     At night this gap is closed off by a simple concrete Jersey barrier, and the pit is left to those outside the wire.

   • 2007, Ellis John & John W. Lee, Police Analysis and Planning for Homicide Bombings, →ISBN, page 198:

     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.

2. A Jersey wall; a wall composed of Jersey barriers that separates lanes of traffic.
   • 2008, John A. Bissonette & Patricia Catherine Cramer, Evaluation of the Use and Effectiveness of Wildlife Crossings, →ISBN, page 60:

     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.

   • 2013, Donald E. Struble, Automotive Accident Reconstruction: Practices and Principles, →ISBN:

     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.

   • 2007, Khaled Mahmoud, Innovations in Bridge Engineering Technology, →ISBN, page 187:

     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.

   • 2013, Linda J. Barth, A History of Inventing in New Jersey: From Thomas Edison to the Ice Cream Cone, →ISBN, page 155:

     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.

同意語

• K-rail