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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...

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...

An electric fence is a barrier that uses electric shocks to deter people and/or other animals from crossing a boundary. The voltage of the shock may have...

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...

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...

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...

in concept to Taito's 1982 arcade video game Qix. The objective is to fence off sections of a playfield while avoiding bouncing balls. Xonix was popular...

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...

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...

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...

Picket fences are a type of fence often used decoratively for domestic boundaries, distinguished by their evenly spaced vertical boards, the pickets, attached...

A pest-exclusion fence is a barrier that is built to exclude certain types of animal pests from an enclosure. This may be to protect plants in horticulture...

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...

juniper. Roundpole fences have traditionally been used as a means of fencing off animals rather than marking property boundaries. The fence construction generally...

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...

A silt fence, sometimes (misleadingly) called a "filter fence," is a temporary sediment control device used on construction sites to protect water quality...

Fences is a 2016 American period drama film starring, produced, and directed by Denzel Washington and written by August Wilson, based on his Pulitzer Prize-winning...

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...

A via fence, also called a picket fence, is a structure used in planar electronic circuit technologies to improve isolation between components which would...

help sand dune stabilization, keep sand off roadways, and to recruit new material in desert areas. Sand fences are also commonly employed following storm...