A palisade is a steel or wooden fence or wall of variable height, usually used as a defensive structure. Palisade, palisades or palisading also may refer to: Software PALISADE (software), an open source cross platform software library that provides implementations of lattice-based cryptography building blocks and homomorphic encryption schemes Geology Columnar basalt, a common extrusive igneous (volcanic) rock formed from the rapid cooling of basaltic lava exposed at or very near the surface of a planet List of places with columnar jointed volcanics United States The Palisades (Hudson River), cliffs along the Hudson River in the US states of New York and New Jersey Palisades Sill, an intrusive igneous body that forms the cliffs largely following the southern portion of the Hudson River Palisades (California Sierra), a group of peaks in the Sierra Nevada range of east-central California Palisade Glacier, California The Palisades (Napa County), a mountain range in the northern San Francisco Bay Area, California The Palisade (Colorado), a butte in Mesa County, Colorado Palisade Head, a headland on the North Shore of Lake Superior in Minnesota Mississippi Palisades State Park, encompassing cliffs along the Mississippi River in northwestern Illinois Kentucky River Palisades, cliffs along the Kentucky River in central Kentucky Canada Jasper Palisade, a mountain formation in Jasper National Park, Alberta Communities Canada Palisade, Saskatchewan The Palisades, Edmonton United States Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California Palisade, Colorado Palisade, Minnesota Palisade, Nebraska Palisade, Nevada Palisades, New York Palisades Park, New Jersey The Palisades, Washington, D.C., a neighborhood Biology Palisade cell, a type of cell found in plant leaves Palisade (pathology), a single layer of relatively long cells Places Palisades Amusement Park, former amusement park in Bergen County, New Jersey Palisades Park (Freddy Cannon song), a hit song by Freddy Cannon Palisades Park (Counting Crows song), a song by Counting Crows Palisade Avenue (Hudson Palisades) in Hudson and Bergen, New Jersey Palisades Center, a major shopping center in West Nyack, New York Palisades Charter High School, in Los Angeles, California Palisades Dam, Idaho Palisades Interstate Parkway, a highway in New York and New Jersey Palisades (music venue), a former live music venue in Bushwick, Brooklyn Palisades Nuclear Generating Station, in Van Buren County, Michigan Palisades School District, in northeastern Bucks County, Pennsylvania Palisades Tahoe, a ski resort in Olympic Valley, California Palisades Toys, a company that produced action figures and other collectibles Music Palisades (band), an American post-hardcore/hardcore band from