fringent

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adjective

Encircling like a fringe; bordering.

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Meanings

adjectivefringent (not comparable)
  1. not comparableEncircling like a fringe; bordering.

    […] the fringent saltmarshes and wetlands […]

    2011, Oscar Grillo, Gianfranco Venora, Ecosystems Biodiversity, page 38
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    [W]hen a shower of meteors / Cross the orbit of the earth, / And, lit by fringent air, / Blaze near and far, / Mortals deem the planets bright / Have slipped their sacred bars, / And the lone seaman all the night / Sails, astonished, amid stars.

    1847, R[alph] W[aldo] Emerson, “Initial, Dæmonic, and Celestial Love”, in Poems, Boston, Mass.: James Munroe and Company, →OCLC, part II (The Dæmonic and the Celestial Love), page 168

    The optical beam entering from the top is reflected at the bottom of the superstrate coated by a dielectric mirror and thus samples the fringent electric field between the electrodes which penetrates into the crystal.

    2012, Walter E. Bron, Ultrashort Processes in Condensed Matter, page 154
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APA

fringent. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fringent

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“fringent.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fringent. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fringent,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fringent.

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