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SPEED BUMP
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Dictionary entry overview: What does speed bump mean?
• SPEED BUMP (noun)
The noun SPEED BUMP has 1 sense:
1. a hindrance to speeding created by a crosswise ridge in the surface of a roadway
Familiarity information: SPEED BUMP used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A hindrance to speeding created by a crosswise ridge in the surface of a roadway
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("speed bump" is a kind of...):
encumbrance; hinderance; hindrance; hitch; incumbrance; interference; preventative; preventive (any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome)
Context examples
The breakthrough of this study, he added, was to reach resolutions high enough to capture as many of these 'speed bumps' as possible and determine their effects in Antarctica while also modeling sea level rise over the entire planet.
(Antarctica's Effect on Sea Level Rise in Coming Centuries, NASA)
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