fringe

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Editorial note

For the first ~200 years of America NO ONE supported gay marriage beyond fringe gay groups.

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Quick take

the outside boundary or surface of something

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of fringe gathered in one view.

noun

the outside boundary or surface of something

noun

a part of the city far removed from the center; "they built a factory on the outskirts of the city"

noun

one of the light or dark bands produced by the interference and diffraction of light

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for fringe.

noun

the outside boundary or surface of something

noun

a part of the city far removed from the center; "they built a factory on the outskirts of the city"

noun

one of the light or dark bands produced by the interference and diffraction of light

noun

a social group holding marginal or extreme views; "members of the fringe believe we should be armed with guns at all times"

noun

a border of hair that is cut short and hangs across the forehead

noun

an ornamental border consisting of short lengths of hanging threads or tassels

verb

adorn with a fringe; "The weaver fringed the scarf"

verb

decorate with or as if with a surrounding fringe; "fur fringed the hem of the dress"

Example sentences

For the first ~200 years of America NO ONE supported gay marriage beyond fringe gay groups.

There's often stuff on the fringe, but any serious result will be replicated soon.

"Physics Essays", the journal in which these papers are published, has the reputation of being ... on the fringe, let's say;2.

So is "lifting weights is much more efficient than cardio".I say this only so that you don't read this and think these are some kind of fringe theories.

Hepatitis C is a nasty disease that primarily affects people on the fringe of society.

But this has been for non-mesh fringe nodes that only used UDP/IPv6 multicasts to communicate with its immediate neighbors, and no mesh networking.

"Other groups" probably means stuff like Occupy, animal welfare activists, other sorts of scary 'fringe' groups, and probably rank-and-file citizens too, but it's a useful way to bulk up his claim a little more.

BitCoin could, ideally, liberate transactions between individuals and significantly reduce barriers for anything from microtransactions to donating to fringe political causes.

* False positives and guilt by association -- being flagged as a "person of interest" and then essentially persecuted because you have fringe ideological interests, are looking up a lot of info on terrorism for a book project, have a friend who knows radical Muslims, etc.