To be on the fringe or the fringes of a place means to be on the outside edge of it, or to be in one of the parts that are farthest from its centre. black townships located on the fringes of the city They lived together in a mixed household on the fringe of a campus
{i} ornamental border consisting of loose hanging threads; anything which resembles such a border; margin, periphery, edge; something considered marginal or extreme
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"
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)
A fringe is a decoration attached to clothes, or other objects such as curtains, consisting of a row of hanging strips or threads. The jacket had leather fringes
The fringes are basically warps which extend from the foundation at the end of a rug Their basic role is to hold the rug together and keep the wefts from unraveling
The fringe or the fringes of an activity or organization are its less important, least typical, or most extreme parts, rather than its main and central part. The party remained on the fringe of the political scene until last year
Fringe groups or events are less important or popular than other related groups or events. The monarchists are a small fringe group who quarrel fiercely among themselves. the theatre productions in the Edinburgh Festival which are not part of the official programme. fringe group/event/issue etc a group, event etc that is less important or popular than the main group etc, or whose opinions are not accepted by most other people involved in the same activity mainstream
An ornamental appendage to the border of a piece of stuff, originally consisting of the ends of the warp, projecting beyond the woven fabric; but more commonly made separate and sewed on, consisting sometimes of projecting ends, twisted or plaited together, and sometimes of loose threads of wool, silk, or linen, or narrow strips of leather, or the like
On windowed displays, there's a narrow portion of the frame (q v ) between the text area and the window's border Emacs displays the fringe using a special face (q v ) called fringe See section fringe
(also called "apron, collar, frog hair") the short grass that separates the putting green from rough or fairway Example: Though I missed the green with my approach shot the ball was just on the fringe/frog hair/apron/collar
The light and dark band caused by interference In a Fizeau double-pass setup with the interferometer operating at 633 nm, each cycle from light to dark to light is equal to 316 nm