fringe

1. A decorative border.Examples: "He walked up the heath’s western edge, beside a fringe of scrub where hogweed grew in tangles and brambles rose taller than him."broadly

2. (also figurative) A marginal or peripheral part.Examples: "the confines of grace and the fringes of repentance"; "Dos Santos, who has often been on the fringes at Spurs since moving from Barcelona, whipped in a fantastic cross that Pavlyuchenko emphatically headed home for his first goal of the season."Synonyms: edge, peripheryalsofiguratively

3. A group of people situated on the periphery of a larger community.Examples: "a fringe group of the party"alsoattributive

4. The periphery of an area, especially a town or city.Examples: "All the fringe people thought it was such a good house, ingenious in fact, and erected similar makeshift housing for themselves."Synonyms: outskirtsAustralia

5. (UK) Synonym of bangs: hair hanging over the forehead, especially a hairstyle where it is cut straight across.Examples: "Her fringe is so long it covers her eyes."; "In a few minutes Mrs. Athelny appeared. She had taken her hair out of the curling pins and now wore an elaborate fringe."; "Fayne in the photograph had a fringe, hair frizzed over hidden ears, sleeves over-ornate, the whole thing out of keeping."Synonyms: bangsUK

6. (physics) A light or dark band formed by the diffraction of light.Examples: "interference fringe"