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corridor

1. a hallway or passage connecting parts of a building
2. a strip of land or airspace along the route of a road or river
3. a strip of land or airspace that affords access, either from a landlocked country to the sea (such as the Polish corridor, 1919-39, which divided Germany) or from a state to an exclave (such as the Berlin corridor, 1945--90, which passed through the former East Germany)
4. a passageway connecting the compartments of a railway coach
5. corridors of power the higher echelons of government, the Civil Service, etc., considered as the location of power and influence
6. a flight path that affords safe access for intruding aircraft

Corridor

A narrow passageway or gallery connecting several rooms or apartments within a residence, school, hospital, office building or other structure.

What does it mean when you dream about a corridor?

Symbol of transition; going from one situation to something different. Alternatively, a corridor can represent a route to one’s unconscious mind. In psychoanalysis, a womb symbol. (See also Hallway).

corridor

[′kär·ə·dər]
(ecology)
A land bridge that allows free migration of fauna in both directions.

corridor

1. A long interior passageway providing access to several rooms.
2. A public means of access from several rooms or spaces to an exit.
3. An enclosed passageway that limits the means of egress to a single path of travel. Also see exit, passageway.

corridor

corridor
i. A ‘hole' with defined boundaries, through the terminal control area designated Class B Airspace, in which aircraft may operate without an ATC (air traffic control) clearance or communication with air traffic control.
ii. A safe path variably for either a low-level penetration that is relatively free of obstructions or a path in which enemy radar cover is least or is relatively safe from enemy defenses. Also, a path through which certain types of traffic are permitted.
iii. A restricted air route specified for use by friendly aircraft and established for the purpose of preventing friendly aircraft from being fired on by friendly forces.
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At first I thought it was one vast, unbroken chamber, so clear and transparent were the walls of the winding corridors, but after I had nearly brained myself a couple of times by attempting to pass through solid vitreous walls I went more carefully.
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Sixteen of these 18 corridor species were shared with mainland and fragments sites, typifying the broad overlap in species assemblages between corridors and the two additional old-growth forest macrohabitats: continuous old-growth and old-growth fragments (Lomolino and Perault 2000).
CORRIDORS AND MAMMAL COMMUNITY STRUCTURE ACROSS A FRAGMENTED, OLD-GROWTH FOREST LANDSCAPE
Abbas Akhoundi, Iran's minister of roads and urban development, has described the North-South Transportation Corridor as "significant".
Iranian minister highlights significance of North-South corridor
ISLAMABAD -- The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will assist Pakistan to realise the potential of economic corridor development with a view to boost industrial productivity, exports and job creation and thereby contribute to sustained, increased and equitable economic growth.
ADB to help develop economic corridors
BEIJING -- The China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is a tangible mega project that will 'undertake the great mission of prompting the economic take off and even the rise of Pakistan', professor of international relations at Renmin University of China Wang Yiwei Thursday said.
CPEC to undertake great mission of prompting economic take off of Pakistan: Analysts
Related: ACA risk program may kill Molina exchange plans Actuaries slam risk corridor proposal
HHS promised full risk corridors payments, insurers say
A regional corridor meeting, held in Abidjan, on the Abidjan-Lagos Corridor concluded Monday with calls for renewed commitment, accelerated implementation while also recognising the challenges ahead to ensure improved efficiency on the corridor.
Cote Dlvoire,Nigeria : Abidjan-Lagos Corridor Coordination Meeting ends with calls for accelerated implementation and recognition of challenges ahead
Delhi government and railways have planned an integrated signal- free corridor connecting East and West borders of Delhi.
Capital may soon get green signal corridor
The article disappoints by (1) disqualifying and ignoring the entire corridor market, (2) exhibiting a critical misunderstanding of what a rail corridor is, (3) proposing a severely flawed methodology that is a hybrid of a going concern valuation technique that is unrelated to the actual market for corridors, and (4) demonstrating a lack of understanding of the ATF methodology.
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Chaffee Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor, which was established by the U.
Auburn joins corridor; 'Hole' in coverage filled
The typical toilet presented in Figure 1 will very likely open to a corridor, which is very likely to be fire rated.
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Simpson and Grosch will respectively be in charge of Motorways of the Sea (MoS) and the Orient-East Med corridor.
TRANSPORT : ELEVEN COORDINATORS FOR NEW INFRASTRUCTURE POLICY

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