fringing

Pluralfringings

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of fringe.

   Palm trees fringing the shore gave the bay its postcard look.

   Fringing a rug by hand takes patience and a steady supply of yarn.

   Note

   Two meanings go with two kinds of subject: reeds or palms fringing a lake simply form its border, while a person fringing a rug or a shawl is adding one by hand. The participle often follows its noun directly, as in a cove with cliffs fringing the water.

2. 2
   nouncountable or uncountable

   A fringe or other border running along the edge of something.

   The lampshade's silk fringing had faded after years in the sun.

   A narrow fringing of pine trees separated the beach from the road.

   Similaredging, border, trim

3. 3
   adjective

   Forming a border or fringe along the edge of something.

   Divers explored the fringing reef that runs close along the island's shore.

   The fringing woodland around the field gives the deer some shelter.

   Similarbordering, surrounding

4. 4
   noununcountable

   The appearance of false colors in an image when the separate single-color images that make it up are poorly aligned.

   Misaligned plates left visible fringing around the lettering on the poster.

   Early three-tube color cameras needed careful adjustment to keep fringing out of the picture.

5. 5
   noununcountable

   Any irregular electric or magnetic effect that occurs at the edges of a region.

   Fringing near the rim of the plates makes the measured capacitance a little higher than predicted.

   Magnetic fringing at the air gap spreads the flux beyond the edges of the core.

   Note

   Engineers meet it wherever a field leaks past an edge: at the rim of a capacitor's plates, or across the air gap of a magnetic core, where the flux spreads beyond the iron. The effect grows as the gap widens compared with the size of the plates or poles, and it is safe to neglect only when the gap is narrow.

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