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 that departs significantly from mainstream or orthodox theories in an established field of study 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 Chionanthus (common name: fringetrees), a genus of about 150 species of flowering plants in the family Oleaceae
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
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