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  • verb Present participle of fringe.
  • noun The appearance of false colours in an image as the result of poor registration of component monochrome images
  • noun physics Any anomalous electric or magnetic effect at the edges of a region
  • adjective that fringes

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Examples

  • There's some edge enhancement and just a little purple fringing, which is noticeable upon close inspection, but isn't too distracting.

    Home Theater Forum Ockeghem 2010

  • There's some edge enhancement and just a little purple fringing, which is noticeable upon close inspection, but isn't too distracting.

    Home Theater Forum Ockeghem 2010

  • Again, the Samsung Highnote captures more detail in the shade than some of the worse cameraphones we've tried, but the fringing is a problem.

    infoSync World 2008

  • I bound it off last night, wove in ends this morning, and am slightly more than halfway through the fringing which is easy, but tedious.

    Archive 2007-10-01 Susan Palwick 2007

  • I bound it off last night, wove in ends this morning, and am slightly more than halfway through the fringing which is easy, but tedious.

    Buffy Times Two Susan Palwick 2007

  • "fringing" around the orange objects that's quite noticeable on either of mine, that I don't see on yours.

    VideoHelp.com Forum 2010

  • "fringing" around the orange objects that's quite noticeable on either of mine, that I don't see on yours.

    VideoHelp.com Forum 2010

  • "fringing" around the orange objects that's quite noticeable on either of mine, that I don't see on yours.

    VideoHelp.com Forum 2010

  • "fringing" around the orange objects that's quite noticeable on either of mine, that I don't see on yours.

    VideoHelp.com Forum 2010

  • The sweeping tall palm trees fringing the edge of the beach, seemingly bowed toward the sea, as if trying to dip their frowns over the white sands to reach the ocean for a refreshing drink of its cool water.

    "Best" Beach 2009

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