Fence

:This article is about the structure. For other meanings, see Fence (disambiguation).

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A fence is a freestanding structure designed to restrict or prevent movement across a boundary. It is generally distinguished from a wall by the lightness of its construction: a wall is usually restricted to such barriers made from solid brick or concrete, blocking vision as well as passage (though the definitions overlap somewhat).

Related Topics:
Movement - Boundary - Wall

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Fences are constructed for several purposes, including:

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• Agricultural fencing, to keep livestock in or predators out
• Privacy fencing, to provide privacy
• Security fencing, to prevent trespassing or theft and/or to keep children and pets from wandering away
• Decorative fencing, to enhance the appearance of a property or garden

Some of the technologies developed for fencing include:

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• Barbed wire fence
• Chain-link fencing
• Electric fencing
• Hedgerows of intertwined, living shrubs (constructed by hedge laying)
• Palisade
• Picket fences, generally a waist-high, painted, partially decorative fence
• Post-and-rail fencing
• Rock wall fencing
• Split-rail fences made of timber, often laid in a zig-zag pattern, particularly in newly-settled parts of the United States
• Stake-and-wire fencing
• Sunken fence or "ha-ha"
• Turf mounds in semiarid grasslands such as the western United States or Russian steppes
• Wood-panel fencing
• Snow fence

Alternatives for a fence are a hedge or a ditch (occasionally with water, that is, a moat).

Related Topics:
Hedge - Ditch - Water - Moat

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A balustrade or railing is a kind of fence to prevent people from falling over the edge, for example, on a balcony, stairway (see railing system), roof, bridge, or elsewhere near a body of water, places where people stand or walk and the terrain goes steeply down, and so on.

Related Topics:
Balcony - Stairway - Railing system - Roof - Bridge - Body of water

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