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Fringe may refer to:
Arts and music
Television and entertainment
Science
Fringe science , scientific inquiry in an established field of study that departs significantly from mainstream or orthodox theories
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 kind of heterogeneous 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
See also
Topics referred to by the same term