fringent
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English[edit]
Adjective[edit]
fringent (not comparable)
- Encircling like a fringe; bordering.
- 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:
- [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.
- 2011, Oscar Grillo, Gianfranco Venora, Ecosystems Biodiversity, page 38:
- […] the fringent saltmarshes and wetlands […]
- 2012, Walter E. Bron, Ultrashort Processes in Condensed Matter, page 154:
- 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.
References[edit]
- “fringent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.