"apparent barrier" is correct and usable in written English
You could use it whenever you want to express that something appears to be a barrier, even if it may not actually be one. For example, "The high wall seemed to be an apparent barrier to the castle, but it was easily climbed."
The apparent barrier emerged from work by a microscopist called Ernst Abbe who in 1873 showed that optical microscopes could never see features smaller than roughly half the wavelength of visible light.
This apparent barrier might allow females to keep out unwanted males, say scientists.
This gives the cell an apparent barrier and keeps useless materials out [12]. Figure 2 Structure of phospholipid bilayer.
Surprisingly, we break through an apparent barrier due to well-known results from the distributed computing area.
Figure 5 Zero-bias apparent barrier height (stars) and ideality factor function ( n -1 - 1) versus 1/( 2kT ) (filled boxes) curves.
Although residue has a number of characteristics of environmental concern, the most immediate and apparent barrier to remediation and utilization (improved sustainability) is its high alkalinity and sodicity.
The American Republic stands threatened by the first overtly anti-democratic leader of a large party in its modern history — an authoritarian with no grasp of history, no impulse control, and no apparent barriers on his will to power.
He said he had also filmed opponents of the government, but he seemed most enthusiastic about his ability to break through the apparent barriers and get close to Chávez loyalists.
IT IS 20 years since the term "glass ceiling" was coined by the Wall Street Journal to describe the apparent barriers that prevent women from reaching the top of the corporate hierarchy; and it is ten years since the American government's specially appointed Glass Ceiling Commission published its recommendations.
Poor economic prospects and a range of practical management issues are apparent barriers to changing present practices on private land.
Our findings are revealing as they indicate both genuine barriers associated with action research and some apparent barriers that are in reality misperceptions or myths.
