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  • (occasionally called a telegraph pole, lamp-post, or picket fence error) is a specific type of off-by-one error. An early description of this error appears...
    10 KB (1,428 words) - 16:11, 6 September 2024
  • newcomers came to the American West to farm, established cattlemen began to fence off their larger tracts of land with barbed wire in order to protect them...
    14 KB (2,008 words) - 00:09, 27 June 2024
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    An electric fence is a barrier that uses electric shocks to deter people and other animals from crossing a boundary. The voltage of the shock may have...
    38 KB (4,926 words) - 01:01, 28 August 2024
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    Border barrier (redirect from Border fence)
    A border barrier, border fence or border wall is a separation barrier that runs along or near an international border. Such barriers are typically constructed...
    46 KB (3,192 words) - 08:39, 19 September 2024
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    an abstract strategy board game for two players in which the aim is to fence off more territory than the opponent. The game was invented in China more...
    137 KB (16,284 words) - 10:50, 16 September 2024
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    Bangladesh–Myanmar border (category Fences)
    210 km (130 mi) of the border is fenced, with the government of Myanmar announcing in 2017 that it was planning to fence off the rest of the border. The border...
    11 KB (952 words) - 12:55, 11 September 2024
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    The Dingo Fence or Dog Fence is a pest-exclusion fence in Australia to keep dingoes out of the relatively fertile south-east part of the continent (where...
    20 KB (1,927 words) - 14:33, 21 September 2024
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    has a depth of about 30 metres (98 ft). Another nearby gas crater is fenced off and has a distinct odor. The early years of the crater's history are still...
    11 KB (965 words) - 04:10, 13 August 2024
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    is also a solid fence on the top of the bank, which may produce a drop fence to get off the obstacle, or may allow for a stride off. Because this obstacle...
    29 KB (4,496 words) - 06:10, 30 August 2024
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    A silt fence, sometimes (misleadingly) called a "filter fence," is a temporary sediment control device used on construction sites to protect water quality...
    13 KB (1,462 words) - 21:54, 2 November 2023
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    juniper. Roundpole fences have traditionally been used as a means of fencing off animals rather than marking property boundaries. The fence construction generally...
    3 KB (367 words) - 14:22, 18 August 2024
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    Picket fences are a type of fence often used decoratively for domestic boundaries, distinguished by their evenly spaced vertical boards, the pickets, attached...
    7 KB (750 words) - 20:13, 17 June 2024
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    A fence, also known as a receiver, mover, or moving man, is an individual who knowingly buys stolen goods in order to later resell them for profit. The...
    41 KB (5,697 words) - 01:03, 24 September 2024
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    The rail fence cipher (also called a zigzag cipher) is a classical type of transposition cipher. It derives its name from the manner in which encryption...
    7 KB (1,103 words) - 16:01, 16 September 2023
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    needed to fence off fields to prevent cattle and sheep from eating their crops. Barbed wire, invented in 1874, gradually made inroads in fencing off privately...
    23 KB (2,805 words) - 21:21, 29 August 2024
  • A via fence, also called a picket fence, is a structure used in planar electronic circuit technologies to improve isolation between components which would...
    10 KB (1,417 words) - 00:03, 1 October 2023
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    there are "open range" laws, those wanting to keep animals off their property must erect a fence to keep animals out; this applies to public roads as well...
    14 KB (1,699 words) - 00:46, 21 August 2024
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    wire netting and fenced off the watercourses; at the first heatwave, the rabbits perished of thirst. Shortly after 1900, he fenced off the deserted Yardea...
    34 KB (3,860 words) - 01:00, 4 September 2024
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    can sign renting contracts with Greek Cypriots if they accept that the fenced-off town belongs to the Evkaf." In 2019–20, inventory studies of buildings...
    28 KB (2,739 words) - 20:14, 11 September 2024
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    Symposium in 2010. Initiatives included building wooden pegboards to fence off the sides of tracks and chemically treating grains to deter the bears...
    87 KB (9,218 words) - 21:57, 21 September 2024
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