Fence (disambiguation)

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A fence is a barrier enclosing or bordering a field, yard, etc., usually made of posts and wire or wood, used to prevent entrance, to confine, or to mark a boundary.

Fence, fences or fencing may also refer to:

Science and technology

• Fence (mathematics), partially ordered set formed by an alternating sequence of order relations
• Fence (statistics), value beyond which an observation is considered an outlier
• Fence lizard (disambiguation), two species of spiny lizard
• Air Force Space Surveillance System, radar system for tracking spacecraft, commonly known as "The Fence"
• Fencing response, a peculiar position of the arms following a concussion

Computing

• Fence instruction, a computer operation for enforcing sequel memory operations
• Fences (software), desktop utility for Windows computers by Stardock
• Fencing (computing), mechanism in computer clusters

Entertainment

• Fence (magazine), an American literary magazine
• Fences (play), a 1983 Pulitzer Prize-winning play by August Wilson
  • Fences (film), a 2016 film adaptation of the play, starring Denzel Washington and Viola Davis, and directed by Washington
• Slitherlink or Fences, logic puzzle published by Nikoli

Music

• Fences (band), an American rock band
  • Fences (album)
• "Fences" (song), a song on Paramore's 2007 album Riot!

Places

• Fence, Wisconsin, a town in the United States
• Fence (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community in the United States
• Fence, Lancashire, a village in England

Sport

• Fencing, a sport of armed combat using a foil, épée, or saber
• Horse jumping obstacles, obstacles to be jumped as part of a show-jumping or cross-country course

Historical

• Fencing, the English term for historical European martial arts, often including the dagger, longsword, rapier, and sword and buckler

Other uses

• Fence (criminal), dealer in the purchase and sale of stolen property
• Fence (finance), a combination of financial instruments used to protect an investor against adverse price movements
• Fence (woodworking), portion of a tool used as a guide