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1 definition found From The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) [jargon]: barn n. [uncommon; prob. from the nuclear military] An unexpectedly large quantity of something: a unit of measurement. ?Why is /var/adm taking up so much space?? ?The logs have grown to several barns.? The source of this is clear: when physicists were first studying nuclear interactions, the probability was thought to be proportional to the cross-sectional area of the nucleus (this probability is still called the cross-section). Upon experimenting, they discovered the interactions were far more probable than expected; the nuclei were ?as big as a barn?. The units for cross-sections were christened Barns, (10^-24 cm^2) and the book containing cross-sections has a picture of a barn on the cover.