Wall
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A wall is a vertical structure, usually solid, that defines and sometimes protects an area. Most commonly, a wall delineates a building and supports its superstructure, separates space in buildings into sections, or protects or delineates a space in the open air. There are three principal types of structural walls: building walls, exterior boundary walls, and retaining walls.
In architecture and civil engineering, the term curtain wall refers to the facade of a building which is not load-bearing but functions as decoration, finish, front, face, or history preservation.
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See also
- Berlin Wall
- Chinese Wall
- Separation barrier
- Dry-stone wall
- Fence
- Fourth wall
- Great Wall
- Stone wall
- Wallpaper
- Wall Street
- Pink Floyd – The Wall by Pink Floyd
- WALL-E
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