marginal

Meanings

Adjective

  • Of, relating to, or located at or near a margin or edge; also figurative usages of location and margin (edge).
  • Determined by a small margin; having a salient characteristic determined by a small margin.
  • Pertaining to changes resulting from a unit increase in production or consumption of a good.

Noun

  • Something or somebody that is marginal.
  • A constituency won with a small margin.

Origin

  • Borrowing from Medieval Latin marginālis.

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