What does fringent mean?
Fringent means Encircling like a fringe; bordering..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Encircling like a fringe; bordering..
[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.
[…] the fringent saltmarshes and wetlands […]
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.
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Fringent means Encircling like a fringe; bordering..
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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.
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