0 the outer or less important part of an area, group, or activity: --
1 a decorative edge of hanging narrow strips of material or threads on a piece of clothing or material: --
a fringe around the edge of a tablecloth
2 an area of hair hanging over the forehead (= part of the face above the eyes) that is cut shorter than the rest of the hair: --
a short fringe
3 If a place is fringed with something, that thing forms a border along the edge: --
4 the outer or less important part of an area, group, or activity: --
His organization is a fringe group (= one that represents the views of a small number of people).
5 a decorative edge of narrow strips of material or threads on a piece of clothing or material --
The lake margins are convoluted giving rise to numerous shallow bays fringed in many parts by large tropical swamps.
Clear and well-defined fringes indicate that a stable phase relationship is conserved across all the generated visible spectrum.
The interference pattern is periodic in nature, consisting of alternate dark and bright fringes.
The black lines represent the position of the reference fringes.
In the middle picture it can be seen that the fringes almost disappear, appear again, and then the brightness of the fringes decreases once more.
They complained in 1478, for example, that they were allocated stalls on the fringes of the cloth fairs.
Image processing was applied to find the fringes of characteristic etch pits that are typical for aqueous sedimentary grains.
From the peripheral position at the fringes they have occupied for more than two decades, theyjump to a central point of architectural relevance.
