A fringe or border.
Used in a Sentence
fringing
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for fringing.
Editorial note
It's worst with green around the top of the left black line, but there's green and red fringing everywhere.
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Definitions4
Parts of speech2
Quick take
A fringe or border.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of fringing gathered in one view.
The appearance of false colours in an image as the result of poor registration of component monochrome images.
That fringes.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for fringing.
noun
A fringe or border.
noun
The appearance of false colours in an image as the result of poor registration of component monochrome images.
adjective
That fringes.
noun
(physics) Any anomalous electric or magnetic effect at the edges of a region.
Example sentences
It's worst with green around the top of the left black line, but there's green and red fringing everywhere.
Just applying the algorithm to each color channel separately leads to color fringing when they get out of sync.
Some panels shift dramatically, and some operating systems do a terrible job and you'll notice all kinds of fringing.
This is a company whose first digital M camera suffered from serious issues with color fringing from infrared light.
First, there is no 'before and after' picture, to see how much change in fringing occurred.
Second, nothing is mentioned about verification that the fringing effect was not coming from mechanical distortion of the display screen.
You may want to consider a better lens that doesn't exhibit the strong purple color fringing.
The most obvious one is that the pixels aren’t aligned to a traditional grid which leads to really noticeable fringing.
Have you ever looked at someone silhouetted by a bright light, and noticed color fringing on the left and right sides?
Calibrate ClearType to use as little color as possible (use the system magnifier to help); this way, when apps get scaled the text is just blurry rather than blurry with odd color-fringing.
There's also a sort of purpleish fringing at the far edges of the screen.
And as mentioned I couldn't see the fringing from normal use, that only became evident with macro photos.
Quote examples
However, good news (at least for me): I can see subpixels on a 1080p 24" during high color contrast (ie, fringing fonts), I _cannot_ see them on a 4k 24".
There's almost no fringing in Firefox's text (and Mozilla devs went through a lot of pain trying to find good defaults for DirectWrite text in the post Fx4 days) but there's quite a bit in IE's text (see the "k" and "a" letters).
On LCDs, "good" polarizers make it hard to make out individual subpixels (which also makes subpixel rendering kinda moot on them; you'll see the fringing but the text won't look any sharper than greyscale, and noticeably less sharper than aliased); instead of "clear and sharp" they're more "natural".
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use fringing in a sentence?
It's worst with green around the top of the left black line, but there's green and red fringing everywhere.
What does fringing mean?
A fringe or border.
What part of speech is fringing?
fringing is commonly used as noun, adjective.