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mountain range
(redirected from Mountain Barriers)

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mountain range
n.
A series of mountain ridges alike in form, direction, and origin.
mountain range
n
(Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) a series of adjoining mountains or of lines of mountains of similar origin
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Noun1.mountain range - a series of hills or mountainsmountain range - a series of hills or mountains; "the valley was between two ranges of hills"; "the plains lay just beyond the mountain range"
chain of mountains, mountain chain, range of mountains, range, chain
geological formation, formation - (geology) the geological features of the earth
massif - a block of the earth's crust bounded by faults and shifted to form peaks of a mountain range
mountain pass, notch, pass - the location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks; "we got through the pass before it started to snow"
Translations
mountain range n → catena montuosa or di montagne
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Thanks to new techniques and equipment either invented or developed and refined in Switzerland, such as shotcrete and tunnel boring machines and high precision measuring devices like sliding micrometers and profilers, permitting safety control and better understanding of the structural behaviour of rock mass, so many tunnels have been drilled that the major mountain barriers have disappeared and the four seasons merged into one.
THE BIG DIG by GREEN, MICHAEL / Swiss News
 
 
 
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