2. Noun. The appearance of false colours in an image as the result of poor registration of component monochrome images ¹
3. Noun. (physics) Any anomalous electric or magnetic effect at the edges of a region ¹
4. Adjective. that fringes ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fringing
1. fringe [v] - See also: fringe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fringing
Literary usage of Fringing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin (1909)
"... Areas interspersed with low Coral Islands—Subsidence of their foundations—Barrier
Reefs—fringing Reefs—Conversion of fringing Reefs into Barrier Reefs, ..."
2. Elementary Physical Geography by William Morris Davis (1902)
"A fringing Reef and rolled about by the waves; the larger fragments are thrown
... At this stage it is called a fringing reef. Strips of fringing reef are ..."
3. The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs by Charles Darwin (1897)
"fringing-REEFS, or, as they have been called by some voyagers, shore-reefs,
whether skirting an island or part of a continent, at first appear to differ ..."
4. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"... Areas interspersed with low Coral Islands—Subsidence of their foundations—Barrier
Reefs—fringing Reefs—Conversion of fringing Reefs into Barrier Reefs, ..."
5. Elements of Geology: A Text-book for Colleges and for the General Reader by Joseph LeConte (1891)
"The reefs of the Pacific Ocean are of three general kinds, viz., fringing reefs,
barrier reefs, and circular reefs or atolli*. We will describe these in the ..."
6. Journal of Researches Into the Geology & Natural History of the Various by Charles Darwin (1908)
"... Areas interspersed with low Coral Islands—Subsidence of their foundations—Barrier
Reefs—fringing Reefs—Conversion of fringing Reefs into Barrier Reefs, ..."
7. Manual of Geology: Theoretical and Practical by John Phillips (1885)
"The fringing Beef, under certain circumstances of depression of land, ...
The fringing reefs are so named, because they grow as a fringe around the shore, ..."
8. Central and South America by Augustus Henry Keane, Clements Robert Markham (1901)
"72000 Total 45870 1640000 Physical Features—fringing Reefs—Upheaved Beaches In
its general relief Cuba may be described as hilly, with moderately elevated ..."
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