What does marginal mean?
Definitions for marginal
ˈmɑr dʒə nlmar·gin·al
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Princeton's WordNet
fringy, marginaladjective
at or constituting a border or edge
"the marginal strip of beach"
borderline, marginaladjective
of questionable or minimal quality
"borderline grades"; "marginal writing ability"
bare(a), marginaladjective
just barely adequate or within a lower limit
"a bare majority"; "a marginal victory"
marginaladjective
producing at a rate that barely covers production costs
"marginal industries"
GCIDE
Marginaladjective
At the lower limit; barely sufficient; as, of marginal utility.
Wiktionary
marginalnoun
Something that is marginal.
marginalnoun
A constituency won with a small margin.
marginaladjective
Of, relating to, or located at or near a margin or edge; also figurative usages of location and margin (edge).
marginaladjective
Determined by a small margin; having a salient characteristic determined by a small margin.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Marginalnoun
Placed, or written on the margin.
Etymology: marginal, French, from margin.
We cannot better interpret the meaning of these words than pope Leo himself expoundeth them, whose speech concerning our Lord’s ascension may serve instead of a marginal gloss. Richard Hooker, b. v.
What remarks you find worthy of your riper observation note with a marginal star, as being worthy of your second year’s review. Isaac Watts, Logick.
ChatGPT
marginal
Marginal refers to the additional or incremental change brought about by a specific decision or action. It is often used in economics and finance to describe the change in revenue, cost, or profit that is associated with a particular decision. In a broader sense, it can also refer to something that is minimal, minor, or not central.
Webster Dictionary
Marginaladjective
of or pertaining to a margin
Marginaladjective
written or printed in the margin; as, a marginal note or gloss
Etymology: [Cf. F. marginal.]
The New Hacker's Dictionary
marginal
[common] 1. [techspeak] An extremely small change. “A marginal increase in core can decrease GC time drastically.” In everyday terms, this means that it is a lot easier to clean off your desk if you have a spare place to put some of the junk while you sort through it. 2. Of little merit. “This proposed new feature seems rather marginal to me.” 3. Of extremely small probability of winning. “The power supply was rather marginal anyway; no wonder it fried.”
Entomology
Marginal
of, belonging to, or near the margin.
British National Corpus
Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'marginal' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4200
Adjectives Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'marginal' in Adjectives Frequency: #566
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of marginal in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of marginal in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of marginal in a Sentence
Deputy Chief Executive Isabelle Kocher:
Nearly half of the capacity that we are developing is in renewables, which are not marginal but totally central for GDF Suez.
The number of deals in excess of $1 billion are up; they represent about two thirds of total volumes in EMEA, or 250 transactions, almost half of these deals are cross-border transactions and they account for a large majority of fees paid to market. For banks, it is critical to advise on these deals, or they end up in a marginal position.
Maybe lower oil prices will allow us to get more aid to people, but its (impact) is quite marginal, i am not sure that 2015 will see a shift in terms of improving poverty and food security.
Unions are at a disadvantage in a company vote because the employees can see that the greatest advocates of unionization are often the malcontents and marginal workers.
As per one record, over 5000 retail investors and marginal traders had committed suicides in 2008 stock market crash. And then real estate market has slumped as many properties were attached of stock market losers. The same story seems to be unfolding in 2022 as capital market continue to fall
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- هامشArabic
- baldío, adyacente, fronterizo, marginal, inferiorSpanish
- marginal, pauvre, adjacent, médiocre, limitrophe, périphérique, voisinFrench
- MarjinalIndonesian
- marginaleItalian
- marginaalDutch
- periférico, adjacente, fronteiriço, marginalPortuguese
- маргинальныйRussian
- marginellSwedish
- குறுTamil
- సన్నకారుTelugu
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