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bar, offshore: see beach.

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bar

a cgs unit of pressure equal to 10⁶ dynes per square centimetre. 1 bar is equivalent to 10⁵ newtons per square metre

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Bar the

1. (in England and elsewhere) barristers collectively

2. US the legal profession collectively

3. be called to or go to the Bar Brit to become a barrister

4. be called within the Bar Brit to be appointed as a Queen's Counsel

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bar [bär]

(geology)

Any of the various submerged or partially submerged ridges, banks, or mounds of sand, gravel, or other unconsolidated sediment built up by waves or currents within stream channels, at estuary mouths, and along coasts.

Any band of hard rock, for example, a vein or dike, that extends across a lode.

(mechanics)

A unit of pressure equal to 10⁵pascals, or 10⁵newtons per square meter, or 10⁶dynes per square centimeter.

(metallurgy)

An elongated piece of metal of simple uniform cross-section dimensions, usually rectangular, circular, or hexagonal, produced by forging or hot rolling. Also known as barstock.

(mining engineering)

bar drill

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BAR

(ordnance)

Browning automatic rifle

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1.	(programming, convention)	bar - /bar/ The second metasyntactic variable, after foo and before baz. E.g. "Suppose function FOO calls functions BAR..."
2.		bar - Often appended to foo to produce foobar.