Definition of Fringes

1. Noun. (plural of fringe) ¹

2. Verb. (third-person singular of fringe) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fringes

1. fringe [v] - See also: fringe

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fringes

fringed gecko
fringed gentian
fringed loosestrife
fringed orchid
fringed orchis
fringed pink
fringed polygala
fringed poppy mallow
fringeless
fringelike
fringent
fringepod
fringers
fringes (current term)
fringey
fringier
fringiest
fringilla
fringillaceous
fringilline
fringing
fringy
frinstance
fripon
fripons
fripper
fripperer
fripperers

Literary usage of Fringes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Physical Optics by Robert Williams Wood (1914)
"Fizeau counted as many as 50000 fringes in the ease of sodium light, while improved ... Shift of the fringes by Introduction of Thin Transparent Plate. ..."

2. Mathematical and Physical Papers by Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Baron John William Strutt Rayleigh (1883)
"ON A FICTITIOUS DISPLACEMENT OF fringes OF INTERFERENCE. THE author remarked that the mode of determining the refractivo index of a plate by means of the ..."

3. The Interferometry of Reversed and Non-reversed Spectra by Carl Barus (1916)
"Finally, a slight rotation of the slit around the axis of the collimator rotates the fringes in the opposite direction to the sodium lines, and it is rather ..."

4. An Introduction to Natural Philosophy: Designed as a Text Book, for the Use by Denison Olmsted (1832)
"On measuring the distances of the fringes from the shadow, while they are ... When we consider that the fringes are largest in red, and smallest in violet ..."

5. A Text Book of the Principles of Physics by Alfred Daniell (1895)
"effects of interference independently of one another, but produce their respective fringes and bands in coincident positions on the screen. ..."

6. Bibliotheca Sacra by Dallas Theological Seminary (1894)
"12 reads, " Thou shall make thee fringes," etc., AV and RV; the latter, ... Its word for "fringes" (JIX'V) is used by Ezekiel for the prominent lock of hair ..."

7. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1871)
"The interior fringes recede farther from the central point P, as the distance of the screen is greater in proportion to the width of the aperture ; and when ..."

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