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Barotrauma

Barotrauma: tissue injury from pressure differences across gas-filled body spaces during flying, diving, or hyperbaric therapy; ear barotrauma (airplane ear, otic barotrauma) is the most common form.

Barotrauma is a 2D co-op submarine survival horror simulator set under Europa's ice, by FakeFish and Undertow Games, published by Daedalic. Early Access June 5, 2019; 1.0 March 13, 2023; up to 16 players, six classes, traitor mode, 60,000+ Workshop mods, Home & Harbor expansion due Autumn 2026.

Barotropic instability

Barotropic instability is a fluid-dynamical instability of horizontally sheared flow in which disturbances draw kinetic energy directly from the background shear, contrasting with baroclinic instability.

Oct 22, 2026

Barotse Native Authority

The Barotse Native Authority was the statutory native authority created in 1936 under British indirect rule in Barotseland, the Lozi kingdom of the upper Zambezi basin in Northern Rhodesia.

Oct 22, 2026

Barotseland Agreement 1964

The Barotseland Agreement 1964 was a treaty signed in London on 18 May 1964 that incorporated Barotseland into the new Republic of Zambia; Zambia abrogated it in 1969.

Barousse

Barousse is a small valley and region in the French Pyrenees, carved by the Ourse river, whose main town is Loures-Barousse; it is known for its marble quarries worked since the Roman period.

Barq's

Barq's is a caffeinated American root beer created by Edward C. Barq, Sr. in Biloxi, Mississippi, in 1898 at the Biloxi Artesian Bottling Works, franchised widely by 1950, and purchased by Coca-Cola in 1995.

Barque

A barque, often spelled bark, is a sailing vessel of three or more masts, square-rigged on every mast except the aftermost, which carries fore-and-aft sails.

Barquisimeto

Barquisimeto is a city in western Venezuela, capital of Lara state, founded in 1552 by Juan de Villegas and considered the country's fourth city behind Caracas, Maracaibo, and Valencia.

Sep 23, 2026

Barquq

Barquq (الظاهر برقوق) was a Mamluk sultan of Egypt and Syria and the first of the Circassian (Burji) line, reigning twice from 1382 until his death in 1399.

Sep 24, 2026

Barquq's seizure of the throne (1382)

Barquq's seizure of the throne (انقلاب برقوق) was the November 1382 deposition of child sultan al-Salih Hajji by the Circassian amir Barquq, who became sultan.

Barr body

Barr body (sex chromatin): the condensed, mostly silent inactive X chromosome seen near the nuclear membrane in female mammal somatic cells, discovered by Barr and Bertram in 1949, formed via XIST RNA, count one fewer than X chromosomes, with some genes escaping silencing.

Oct 26, 2026

Barr Moses

Barr Moses, co-founder and CEO of Monte Carlo (founded 2019 with Lior Gavish), credited with coining data observability and data downtime; formerly Israeli Air Force data unit commander, Bain consultant, and Gainsight VP; Stanford B.Sc. in Mathematical and Computational Science.

Barr Yaron

Barr Yaron is a venture capital investor and Partner at Amplify Partners, known for the annual State of AI Engineering survey, whose 2026 edition drew 1,048 responses.

Barra

Barra (Barraigh) is an inhabited island at the southern end of the Scottish Outer Hebrides, featuring Kisimul Castle and a combined population of 1,300 with Vatersay.

Oct 20, 2026

Barra Mansa

Barra Mansa, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: a Sul Fluminense municipality on the Paraíba do Sul, founded 1832, coffee-era city turned services hub; 169,894 residents (2022 census), IDHM 0.729.

Barracas central

Barracas Central (Club Atlético Barracas Central), Buenos Aires football club founded 5 April 1904, plays in Argentina's Liga Profesional; home is Estadio Claudio Fabián Tapia (10,000), long linked to AFA president Claudio Tapia.

Barracks

Barracks, also called barrack blocks, are buildings or groups of buildings used to house soldiers, originally temporary huts and now usually permanent structures within a garrison.

Barracouta Oil and Gas Field

Barracouta is an oil and gas field in the Gippsland Basin in Bass Strait, off Victoria, Australia, the first offshore discovery in Australian waters, found in 1965 and producing gas since 1969.

Barracuda

Barracuda, Sphyraena (Sphyraenidae): elongated predatory tropical marine fish, 27-28 living species in three groups, including the great barracuda Sphyraena barracuda, up to 2 m, known for speed, ciguatera risk, and rare attacks on divers.

Barracuda (song)

"Barracuda" is a 1977 hard rock song by Heart, lead single of Little Queen, written by Ann Wilson, Nancy Wilson, Roger Fisher, and Michael DeRosier; it peaked at number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was written in anger at a Mushroom Records ad and a promoter's insinuation about the Wilson sisters.

Barracuda (upcoming film)

Barracuda is an upcoming Neil Burger action thriller starring Anthony Mackie and Dafne Keen as Karl and Jodie, fleeing in a stolen 1973 Plymouth Barracuda; filmed in Las Cruces, New Mexico, and Chihuahua, wrapped May 2026, in post-production, with Amazon distribution deals.

Barracuda Networks

Barracuda Networks is an American cybersecurity company headquartered in Campbell, California, founded in 2003, known for email protection, network security, and data protection products for small and medium-sized businesses.

Barracuda Oil and Gas Field

Barracuda is a deepwater oil and gas field in Brazil's Campos Basin, offshore Rio de Janeiro, discovered in 1990 and operated by Petrobras, peaking at 163,900 barrels per day in 2006.

Barracuda Queens

Barracuda Queens is a Swedish Netflix crime drama created by Camilla Ahlgren, premiering June 5, 2023, about privileged teen women in Djursholm who burgle rich neighbors, loosely inspired by the real male Lidingöligan gang; season 2 followed in 2025.

Barracuda-M

Barracuda-M is the warhead-fitted munition configuration of Anduril Industries' software-defined autonomous cruise missiles, unveiled in 2024 as a lower-cost, mass-producible alternative to existing cruise missiles.

Barrage (dam)

A barrage is a low, gated barrier built across a river to raise and regulate the upstream water level, an adjustable weir distinguished from a storage dam.

Barrage balloon

A barrage balloon is a small captive balloon raised on cables over cities, ports, and ships to hinder low-flying aircraft, used most extensively in World War II.

Barrage de Samandéni

Barrage de Samandéni (Samendeni dam): multipurpose dam on the Mouhoun river, Bama, Burkina Faso; 1.05 billion m³ capacity, third largest after Kompienga and Bagré; filled 2017, inaugurated 2019, Ramsar Site 2439.