Fringe may refer to:
Arts and music
* "The Fringe", or
Edinburgh Festival Fringe
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe (also referred to as The Fringe, Edinburgh Fringe, or Edinburgh Fringe Festival) is the world's largest arts and media festival, which in 2019 spanned 25 days and featured more than 59,600 performances of 3,841 dif ...
, the world's largest arts festival
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Adelaide Fringe
The Adelaide Fringe, formerly Adelaide Fringe Festival, is the world's second-largest annual arts festival (after the Edinburgh Festival Fringe), held in the South Australian capital of Adelaide. Between mid-February and mid-March each year, i ...
, the world's second-largest annual arts festival
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Fringe theatre
Fringe theatre is theatre that is produced outside of the main theatre institutions, and that is often small-scale and non-traditional in style or subject matter. The term comes from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.Kemp, Robert, ''More that is Fre ...
, a name for alternative theatre
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Purple fringing, an unfocused purple or magenta "ghost" image on a photograph
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Fringe Product, a defunct Canadian record label
Television and entertainment
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''Fringe'' (TV series), an American science fiction television series
* The Fringe, the setting for the 2000 computer game ''
Tachyon: The Fringe''
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"The Fringe" (short story), a short story by Orson Scott Card
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"The Fringe" (''Smash''), a television episode
Science
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Fringe science, scientific inquiry in an established field of study that departs significantly from mainstream or orthodox theories
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Fringe search, a graph search algorithm that finds the least-cost path from a given initial node to one goal node
* Fringe of a relation,
a kind of heterogeneous relation in mathematics
* Interference fringe, a pattern in
wave interference
In physics, interference is a phenomenon in which two waves combine by adding their displacement together at every single point in space and time, to form a resultant wave of greater, lower, or the same amplitude. Constructive and destructive ...
Other uses
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Fringe (hair), strands or locks of hair that fall over the scalp's front hairline to cover the forehead
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Fringe (trim), an ornamental textile trim applied to an edge of a textile item
* Fringe culture, another name for
counterculture
A counterculture is a culture whose values and norms of behavior differ substantially from those of mainstream society, sometimes diametrically opposed to mainstream cultural mores.Eric Donald Hirsch. ''The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy''. Hou ...
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Fringe party, a political party in a national spectrum with a negligible share of the electorate
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Fringe theory
A fringe theory is an idea or a viewpoint which differs from the accepted scholarship of the time within its field. Fringe theories include the models and proposals of fringe science, as well as similar ideas in other areas of scholarship, such a ...
, an idea or a collection of ideas that departs significantly from the prevailing or mainstream view in its particular field of study
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Chionanthus
''Chionanthus'' , common name: fringetrees, is a genus of about 150 species of flowering plants in the family Oleaceae.
The genus has a wide distribution primarily in the tropics and subtropics, but with three species extending north into te ...
'' (common name: fringetrees), a genus of about 150 species of flowering plants in the family Oleaceae
See also
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