Fence (disambiguation)

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 or fences may also refer to:

Entertainment

Music

Fences (band), an American rock band
Fences (song), a song by Blanche
"Fences", a song on Paramore's 2007 album Riot!
"Fences", a song by Phoenix from the 2009 album Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

Other media

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
Fence (comic book)
Slitherlink or Fences, a logic puzzle published by Nikoli

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

Science and technology

Fence instruction, a computer operation for enforcing sequel memory operations
A fence, in cluster computing, isolates malfunctioning nodes. Such process is called Fencing (computing).
Fences (software), a desktop utility for Windows computers by Stardock
Fence (mathematics), a partially ordered set formed by an alternating sequence of order relations
Fence (statistics), value beyond which an observation is considered an outlier
Air Force Space Surveillance System, a radar system for tracking spacecraft, commonly known as "The Fence".

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
Chumra (Judaism) or "building a fence around the Torah", a prohibition or obligation in Jewish practice
Fencing response, an unnatural position of the arms following a concussion.