Fence (disambiguation)
Appearance
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.
See also
- Fence lizard (disambiguation), two species of spiny lizard