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 ''Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix'' is the fourth studio album by French indie pop band Phoenix. It was released on 25 May 2009 by V2 Records. While the band's previous work enjoyed a moderate underground following, the release of ''Wolfgang Amadeus Pho ...

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 Slitherlink (also known as Fences, Takegaki, Loop the Loop, Loopy, Ouroboros, Suriza and Dotty Dilemma) is a logic puzzle developed by publisher Nikoli. Rules Slitherlink is played on a rectangular lattice of dots. Some of the squares formed by ...

or Fences, a logic puzzle published by Nikoli

Places

Fence, Wisconsin Fence is a town in Florence County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 231 at the 2000 census. The unincorporated community of Fence is located in the town. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total a ...

, a town in the United States *

Fence (community), Wisconsin Fence is an unincorporated community in the town of Fence, Florence County, Wisconsin, United States. Fence is located on County Highway C near Wisconsin Highway 101, southwest of Florence. Fence has a post office A post office is a publi ...

, an unincorporated community in the United States *

Fence, Lancashire Fence is a village in the civil parish of Old Laund Booth, Pendle, Lancashire, England, close to the towns of Nelson and Burnley. It lies alongside the A6068 road, known locally as the Padiham bypass. The parish (which includes the adjoining vil ...

, a village in England

Science and technology

Fence instruction In computing, a memory barrier, also known as a membar, memory fence or fence instruction, is a type of barrier instruction that causes a central processing unit (CPU) or compiler to enforce an ordering constraint on memory operations issued be ...

, a computer operation for enforcing sequel memory operations * A fence, in cluster computing, isolates malfunctioning nodes. Such process is called

Fencing (computing) Fencing is the process of isolating a node of a computer cluster or protecting shared resources when a node appears to be malfunctioning.''Sun Cluster environment: Sun Cluster 2.2'' by Enrique Vargas, Joseph Bianco, David Deeths 2001 ISBN page 58 ...

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Fences (software) Fences is a utility for Windows that helps to organize icons on the desktop. It is developed by Stardock and distributed as part of their Object Desktop suite. Version 1 was freeware after which it has become a commercial product. Functionality ...

, a desktop utility for Windows computers by Stardock * Fence (mathematics), a partially ordered set formed by an alternating sequence of order relations *

Fence (statistics) A fence is a structure that encloses an area, typically outdoors, and is usually constructed from posts that are connected by boards, wire, rails or netting. A fence differs from a wall in not having a solid foundation along its whole length. ...

, value beyond which an observation is considered an

outlier In statistics, an outlier is a data point that differs significantly from other observations. An outlier may be due to a variability in the measurement, an indication of novel data, or it may be the result of experimental error; the latter are ...

* 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) Fence (also known as a Dutch Rudder) is an investment strategy that uses options to limit the range of possible returns on a financial instrument. A fence consists of the following elements: * long position in a financial instrument (e.g. a sha ...

, 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 The fencing response is an unnatural position of the arms following a concussion. Immediately after moderate forces have been applied to the brainstem, the forearms are held flexed or extended (typically into the air) for a period lasting up to sev ...