Usually means: Limit where air resistance increases.
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  1. sound barrier: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sound barrier, the sound barrier: Merriam-Webster
  3. sound barrier: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sound barrier: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sound barrier: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sound barrier: Vocabulary.com
  7. the sound barrier: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. sound barrier: Wiktionary
  9. sound barrier: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. sound barrier: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. sound barrier: Dictionary.com
  12. Sound Barrier, Sound barrier (disambiguation), Sound barrier, The Sound Barrier: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. sound barrier: Rhymezone
  14. sound barrier: FreeDictionary.org
  15. sound barrier: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. sound barrier: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. sound barrier: Encyclopedia

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  1. sound barrier: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (sound barrier)

noun:  (uncountable) Sonic barrier, the sudden increase in drag (resistance) and other effects experienced by moving objects when their speed approaches that of sound or becomes supersonic (which used to be considered a barrier to higher speeds).
noun:  (countable) A noise barrier, a structure beside a highway designed to reduce the noise of traffic.

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