Vignettes (Marilyn Crispell Album)

Vignette may refer to: *

Vignette (entertainment) Sketch comedy comprises a series of short, amusing scenes or vignettes, called "sketches", commonly between one and ten minutes long, performed by a group of comic actors or comedians. The form developed and became popular in vaudeville, and i ...

, a sketch in a sketch comedy *

Vignette (graphic design) A vignette, in graphic design, is a French loanword meaning a unique form for a frame to an image, either illustration or photograph. Rather than the image's edges being rectilinear, it is overlaid with decorative artwork featuring a unique ...

, decorative designs in books (originally in the form of leaves and vines) to separate sections or chapters *

Vignette (literature) A vignette (, also ) is a French loanword expressing a short and descriptive piece of writing that captures a brief period in time. Vignettes are more focused on vivid imagery and meaning rather than plot. Vignettes can be stand-alone, but they ...

, short, impressionistic scenes that focus on one moment or give a particular insight into a character, idea, or setting *

Vignette (model) A diorama is a replica of a scene, typically a three-dimensional full-size or miniature model, sometimes enclosed in a glass showcase for a museum. Dioramas are often built by hobbyists as part of related hobbies such as military vehicle mode ...

, a form of diorama *

Vignette (philately) In philately, the vignette is the central part of a postage stamp design, such as, a monarch's head or a pictorial design, which often shades off gradually to the edges of the stamp. The central vignette is often surrounded by a frame which may ...

, the central part of a stamp design *

Vignette (professional wrestling) Professional wrestling has accrued a considerable amount of jargon throughout its existence. Much of it stems from the industry's origins in the days of carnivals and circuses. In the past, professional wrestlers used such terms in the presence o ...

, a video package used to promote wrestling characters or storylines *

Vignette (psychology) A vignette in psychological and sociological experiments presents a hypothetical situation, to which research participants respond thereby revealing their perceptions, values, social norms or impressions of events. Peter Rossi and colleagues dev ...

, a short description of an event, behavior or person used in a psychology experiment to control information provided to participants *

Vignette (road tax) Vignette is a form of road pricing imposed on vehicles, usually in addition to the compulsory road tax, based on a period of time the vehicle may use the road, instead of road tolls that are based on distance travelled. Vignettes are currently u ...

, a small, colored sticker affixed to motor vehicles in some European nations to indicate road tolls have been paid *

Vignette (vineyard) A vineyard (; also ) is a plantation of grape-bearing vines, grown mainly for winemaking, but also raisins, table grapes and non-alcoholic grape juice. The science, practice and study of vineyard production is known as viticulture. Vineyards ...

, in viticulture, part of a larger consolidated vineyard *

Vignette Corporation Vignette Corporation was a company that offered a suite of content management, web portal, collaboration, document management, and records management software. Targeted at the enterprise market, Vignette offered products under the name StoryServe ...

, a Texas-based commercial software company * ''Vignettes'' (Marilyn Crispell album), 2007 * ''Vignettes'' (Ray Drummond album), 1995 *

Vignetting In photography and optics, vignetting is a reduction of an image's brightness or saturation toward the periphery compared to the image center. The word ''vignette'', from the same root as ''vine'', originally referred to a decorative border ...

in photography, any process by which there is loss in clarity towards the corners and sides of an image {{disambiguation