Fringe may refer to:
Arts
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Edinburgh Festival Fringe, 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, ...
, the world's second-largest annual arts festival
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Fringe theatre, 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
Fringe Product (or Fringe Records) is a defunct Canadian independent record label which was owned by Ben Hoffman. Genres on the label included punk, rock, metal, hardcore, death metal, industrial and electronic music. Hoffman was also propr ...
, a defunct Canadian record label
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Purple fringing
In photography (particularly digital photography), purple fringing (sometimes called PF) is the term for an unfocused purple or magenta "ghost" image on a photograph. This optical aberration is generally most visible as a coloring and lightening ...
, an unfocused purple or magenta "ghost" image on a photograph
Science
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Fringe science
Fringe science refers to ideas whose attributes include being highly speculative or relying on premises already refuted. Fringe science theories are often advanced by persons who have no traditional academic science background, or by researchers ...
, scientific inquiry in an established field of study that departs significantly from mainstream or orthodox theories
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Fringe search
In computer science, fringe search is a graph search algorithm that finds the least-cost path from a given initial node to one goal node.
In essence, fringe search is a middle ground between A* and the iterative deepening A* variant (IDA*).
If ...
, 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)
Bangs (North American English), or a fringe (British English), are strands or locks of hair that fall over the scalp's front hairline to cover the forehead, usually just above the eyebrows, though can range to various lengths. While most peopl ...
, strands or locks of hair that fall over the scalp's front hairline to cover the forehead
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Fringe (trim)
Fringe is an ornamental textile trim applied to an edge of a textile item, such as drapery, a flag, or epaulettes.
Fringe originated as a way of preventing a cut piece of fabric from unraveling when a hemming was not used. Several strands of ...
, 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 minor party is a political party that plays a smaller (in some cases much smaller, even insignificant in comparison) role than a major party in a country's politics and elections. The difference between minor and major parties can be so gre ...
, 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
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