Fringe

Fringe may refer to:

Arts and music

 * "The Fringe", or Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the world's largest arts festival
 * Adelaide Fringe, the world's second-largest annual arts festival
 * Fringe theatre, a name for alternative theatre
 * Purple fringing, an unfocused purple or magenta "ghost" image on a photograph
 * Fringe Product, a defunct Canadian record label

Television and entertainment

 * Fringe (TV series), an American science fiction television series
 * The Fringe, the setting for the 2000 computer game Tachyon: The Fringe
 * "The Fringe" (short story), a short story by Orson Scott Card
 * "The Fringe" (Smash), a television episode

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 particular sub-relation of a binary 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