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What does marginal mean?

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Adjective
  1. (not comparable) Of, relating to, or located at or near a margin or edge; also figurative usages of location and margin (edge).
    1. Written in the margin of a book.
    2. (geography) Sharing a border; geographically adjacent.
  2. (comparable) Determined by a small margin; having a salient characteristic determined by a small margin.
    1. Of a value, or having a characteristic that is of a value, that is close to being unacceptable or leading to exclusion from a group or category.
    2. (land) Barely productive.
    3. (politics) Subject to a change in sitting member with only a small change in voting behaviour, this usually being inferred from the small winning margin of the previous election.
  3. (economics) Pertaining to changes resulting from a unit increase in production or consumption of a good.
Noun
  1. Something that is marginal.
  2. A constituency won with a small margin.
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