marginal

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Of, relating to, or located at or near a margin or edge; also figurative usages of location and margin (edge).

   “The marginal area at the edge of the salt-marsh has its own plants.”

2. sıfat Written in the margin of a book.

   “There were more marginal notes than text.”

3. sıfat Sharing a border; geographically adjacent.

   “Monmouthshire is a Welsh county marginal to England.”

4. sıfat 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.

   “His writing ability was marginal at best.”

5. sıfat Barely productive.

   “He farmed his marginal land with difficulty.”

6. sıfat 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.

   “In Bristol West, Labour had a majority of only 1,000, so the seat is considered highly marginal this time around.”

7. sıfat Pertaining to changes resulting from a unit increase in production or consumption of a good.
8. sıfat Marginalized.
9. isim Something or somebody that is marginal.

   “[…] discusses those who belong to the discipline's dominant cults, the mainliners, and their relations with the marginals and mavericks.”

10. isim A constituency won with a small margin.