Fringe may refer to:
Arts
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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, known as "the Fringe"
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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
* 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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''Fringe'' (TV series), an American science fiction television series
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"The Fringe" (''Smash''), a television episode
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Fringe Product, a defunct Canadian record label
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Purple fringing, an unfocused purple or magenta "ghost" image on a photograph
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
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
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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, 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'' (common name: fringetrees), a genus of about 150 species of flowering plants in the family Oleaceae
See also
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