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- Fringe (hair)Fringe (hair)Fringe are a shaped cutting of the front part of the hair so that it is combed forward and hangs or curls over the forehead. A classic fringe is cut fairly straight at or above the eyebrows, but fringes can also be ragged or ruffled, spiked up with hair gel, swept to one side or the other, and...
, that part of the hair overhanging the forehead, also known as bangs in American English - Fringe (trim)Fringe (trim)Fringe is an ornamental textile trim applied to an edge of an item, such as drapery, a flag, epaulettes, or decorative tassel.Fringe originates in the ends of the warp, projecting beyond the woven fabric...
, an ornamental appendage to the border of an item - Fringe (TV series)Fringe (TV series)Fringe is an American science fiction television series created by J. J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. The series follows a Federal Bureau of Investigation "Fringe Division" team based in Boston, Massachusetts under the supervision of Homeland Security...
, a U.S. television series - Fringe partyFringe partyA political party with a negligible electoral support relative to the total national electorate is often described as a fringe party. While some fringe parties are frivolous, this is by no means universally the case and precedents exist for fringe parties and movements becoming "mainstream"....
, a political party in a national spectrum with a negligible share of the electorate - Fringe Product, a record label
- Fringe scienceFringe scienceFringe science is scientific inquiry in an established field of study that departs significantly from mainstream or orthodox theories, and is classified in the "fringes" of a credible mainstream academic discipline....
- Fringe theoryFringe theoryA fringe theory is an idea or a collection of ideas that departs significantly from the prevailing or mainstream view in its particular field of study. Examples include ideas that purport to be scientific theories but have little or no scientific support, conspiracy theories, unproven esoteric...
- Fringe theatreFringe theatreFringe theatre is theatre that is not of the mainstream. The term comes from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, which name comes from Robert Kemp, who described the unofficial companies performing at the same time as the second Edinburgh International Festival as a ‘fringe’, writing: ‘Round the fringe...
, a name for alternative theatre - Fringe tree, a genus of flowering plants
- "The Fringe" (short story)The Fringe (short story)"The Fringe" is a short story by Orson Scott Card. It appears in his short story collection The Folk of the Fringe and in Future on Ice a short story collection edited by card...
, a short story by Orson Scott Card - Adelaide Fringe FestivalAdelaide Fringe FestivalThe Adelaide Fringe Festival is an arts festival held annually in the South Australian capital of Adelaide. The event is the Southern Hemisphere's largest arts event and the second-largest fringe festival in the world, second in size only to the Edinburgh Fringe...
, Australia's premier arts festival that is the second largest arts festival in the world - Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the largest arts festival in the world
- Fringe culture, another name for countercultureCountercultureCounterculture is a sociological term used to describe the values and norms of behavior of a cultural group, or subculture, that run counter to those of the social mainstream of the day, the cultural equivalent of political opposition. Counterculture can also be described as a group whose behavior...
- Knotted fringes (TzitzitTzitzitThe Hebrew noun tzitzit is the name for specially knotted ritual fringes worn by observant Jews. Tzitzit are attached to the four corners of the tallit and tallit katan.-Etymology:The word may derive from the semitic root N-TZ-H...
) on garments worn by observant Jews - The setting for the computer game Tachyon: The FringeTachyon: The FringeTachyon: The Fringe is a computer game developed and published in 2000 by the company Novalogic. It features the voice acting of Bruce Campbell as main character Jake Logan in a 3-D space simulator...
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