Fringe may refer to:
Arts and music
* "The Fringe", or
Edinburgh Festival Fringe
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe (also referred to as the Edinburgh Fringe, the Fringe or the Edinburgh Fringe Festival) is the world's largest performance arts festival, which in 2024 spanned 25 days, sold more than 2.6 million tickets and featur ...
, the world's largest arts festival
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Adelaide Fringe
Adelaide Fringe, formerly Adelaide Fringe Festival, is Australia’s biggest arts festival and is the world's second-largest annual arts festival (after the Edinburgh Festival Fringe), held in the South Australian capital of Adelaide. Between ...
, 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 Fr ...
, a name for alternative theatre
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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 lightenin ...
, an unfocused purple or magenta "ghost" image on a photograph
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Fringe Product, a defunct Canadian record label
Television and entertainment
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''Fringe'' (TV series), an American science fiction television series
* 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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"The Fringe" (''Smash''), a television episode
Science
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Fringe science
Fringe science refers to ideas whose attributes include being highly speculative or relying on premises already Objection (argument), refuted. The chance of ideas rejected by editors and published outside the mainstream being correct is remote. Wh ...
, scientific inquiry that departs significantly from mainstream or orthodox theories in an established field of study
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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*).
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, a graph search algorithm that finds the least-cost path from a given initial node to one goal node
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Fringe of a relation
In mathematics, a binary relation associates some elements of one set called the ''domain'' with some elements of another set called the ''codomain''. Precisely, a binary relation over sets X and Y is a set of ordered pairs (x, y), where x is ...
, a particular sub-relation of a binary relation in mathematics
* Interference fringe, a pattern in
wave interference
In physics, interference is a phenomenon in which two coherent waves are combined by adding their intensities or displacements with due consideration for their phase difference. The resultant wave may have greater amplitude (constructive in ...
Other uses
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Fringe (hair)
Bangs (North American English) or a fringe (British English, Australian English and New Zealand 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 ra ...
, strands or locks of hair that fall over the scalp's front hairline to cover the forehead
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Fringe (trim)
A 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 strand ...
, 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''. Ho ...
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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 great t ...
, 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 that differs significantly 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 schola ...
, 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 140 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 t ...
'' (common name: fringetrees), a genus of about 150 species of flowering plants in the family Oleaceae
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