Fringe

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Fringe may refer to:

Arts and music

  • "The Fringe", or Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the world's largest arts festival
  • Adelaide Fringe, the world's second-largest annual arts festival
  • Fringe theatre, a name for alternative theatre
  • Purple fringing, an unfocused purple or magenta "ghost" image on a photograph
  • Fringe Product, a defunct Canadian record label

Television and entertainment

  • Fringe (TV series), an American science fiction television series
  • The Fringe, the setting for the 2000 computer game Tachyon: The Fringe
  • "The Fringe" (short story), a short story by Orson Scott Card
  • "The Fringe" (Smash), a television episode

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, a particular sub-relation of a binary 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

See also

  • All pages with titles beginning with Fringe
  • All pages with titles containing Fringe
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