turnpike
/ˈtɜː(ɹ)npaɪk/ nom C1En français : route à péage
- A frame consisting of two bars crossing each other at right angles and turning on a post or pin, to hinder the passage of animals, but admitting a person to pass between the arms.
- A gate or bar set across a road to stop carriages, animals, and sometimes people, until a toll is paid.
- A beam filled with spikes to obstruct passage; a cheval de frise.
- A toll road, especially a toll expressway. In some places the clipped version, pike, is used for roads without tolls.
- A trajectory on a finite time interval that satisfies an optimality criterion which is associated with a cost function.
Pluriel turnpikes
Dans la bibliothèque
Darcy’s sometimes coming there stopped her, and instead of entering the park, she turned up the lane which led her farther from the turnpike road.
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