Fringe festivals in Europe

Fringe may refer to:

Arts

* Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the world's largest arts festival, known as "the Fringe"
* Adelaide Fringe, the world's second-largest annual arts festival
* Fringe theatre, a name for alternative theatre
* The Fringe, the setting for the 2000 computer game ''Tachyon: The Fringe''
* The Fringe (short story), "The Fringe" (short story), a short story by Orson Scott Card
* Fringe (TV series), ''Fringe'' (TV series), an American science fiction television series
* The Fringe (Smash), "The Fringe" (''Smash''), a television episode
* Fringe Product, a defunct Canadian record label
* Purple fringing, an unfocused purple or magenta "ghost" image on a photograph

Science

* Fringe science, scientific inquiry in an established field of study that departs significantly from mainstream or orthodox theories
* 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, heterogeneous relation#Fringe of a relation, a kind of heterogeneous relation in mathematics
* Interference fringe, a pattern in wave interference

Other uses

* Fringe (hair), strands or locks of hair that fall over the scalp's front hairline to cover the forehead
* Fringe (trim), an ornamental textile trim applied to an edge of a textile item
* Fringe culture, another name for counterculture
* Fringe party, a political party in a national spectrum with a negligible share of the electorate
* Fringe theory, an idea or a collection of ideas that departs significantly from the prevailing or mainstream view in its particular field of study
* ''Chionanthus'' (common name: fringetrees), a genus of about 150 species of flowering plants in the family Oleaceae

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