edging consisting of hanging threads or tassels a social group holding marginal or extreme views; "members of the fringe believe we should be armed with guns at all times"
Something resembling in any respect a fringe; a line of objects along a border or edge; a border; an edging; a margin; a confine
One of a number of light or dark bands, produced by the interference of light; a diffraction band; called also interference fringe
a part of the city far removed from the center; "they built a factory on the outskirts of the city"
1 In optics generally, the successive light and dark patterns caused by the interference of waves that are in and out of phase at different positions, as in a Young's double slit experiment 2 In radio astronomy, the oscillation in time of the output of a correlation-type interferometer before such oscillations are stopped (see fringe rotator)