# Fringe

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For the Wikipedia guidelines on fringe theories, see Wikipedia:Fringe theories.

**Fringe** may refer to:

## Arts and music

- "The Fringe", or [Edinburgh Festival Fringe](/source/Edinburgh_Festival_Fringe), the world's largest arts festival
- [Adelaide Fringe](/source/Adelaide_Fringe), the world's second-largest annual arts festival
- [Fringe theatre](/source/Fringe_theatre), a name for alternative theatre
- [Purple fringing](/source/Purple_fringing), an unfocused purple or magenta "ghost" image on a photograph
- [Fringe Product](/source/Fringe_Product), a defunct Canadian record label

## Television and entertainment

- [*Fringe* (TV series)](/source/Fringe_(TV_series)), an American science fiction television series
- The Fringe, the setting for the 2000 computer game *[Tachyon: The Fringe](/source/Tachyon:_The_Fringe)*
- ["The Fringe" (short story)](/source/The_Fringe_(short_story)), a short story by Orson Scott Card
- ["The Fringe" (*Smash*)](/source/The_Fringe_(Smash)), a television episode

## Science

- [Fringe science](/source/Fringe_science), scientific inquiry that departs significantly from mainstream or orthodox theories in an established field of study
- [Fringe search](/source/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](/source/Fringe_of_a_relation), a particular sub-relation of a binary relation in mathematics
- Interference fringe, a pattern in [wave interference](/source/Wave_interference)
- *[Chionanthus](/source/Chionanthus)* (common name: fringetrees), a genus of about 150 species of flowering plants in the family Oleaceae

## Other uses

- [Fringe (hair)](/source/Bangs_(hair)), strands or locks of hair that fall over the scalp's front hairline to cover the forehead
- [Fringe (trim)](/source/Fringe_(trim)), an ornamental textile trim applied to an edge of a textile item
- Fringe culture, another name for [counterculture](/source/Counterculture)
- [Fringe party](/source/Fringe_party), a political party in a national spectrum with a negligible share of the electorate
- [Fringe theory](/source/Fringe_theory), an idea or a collection of ideas that departs significantly from the prevailing or mainstream view in its particular field of study

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