electric fence

[i¦lek·trik ′fens]

(engineering)

A fence consisting of one or more lengths of wire energized with high-voltage, low-current pulses, and giving a warning shock when touched.

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Electric Fence

a length of thin, steel wire strung between fence posts and periodically energized with short, low-power electric pulses. An electric fence is used to enclose plots on which livestock are pastured in rotation grazing. An animal that touches the wire completes the electric circuit and receives a brief shock. Animals quickly develop a fear of the wire. Storage batteries with a voltage of 6 volts or less serve as the power source for an electric fence. The wire is strung 40 to 80 cm above the ground, depending on the type of livestock that are grazing.

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Farmers living along the Mt Kenya Forest are now reaping the benefits of an electric fence that has helped keep off elephants that earlier prevented them from venturing into horticulture as they would destroy crops.Mr Julius Mbaya, who has lived in Marimba village on the edge of Upper Imenti Forest since 1986, could not grow anything besides tea due to daily invasions by elephants.

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Jewish extremist settlers also today closed hundreds of dunums of Palestinian land with an electric fence in the northern Jordan Valley, Palestinian official in charge of the Jordan Valley file in Tubas, Moataz Bisharat, said in a statement.

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