Fringe Explained

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
• "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

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