marginal🔊

Of, relating to, or located at or near a edge; also figurative usages of location and edge.

Written in the margin of a book.

(geography) Sharing a border; geographically adjacent.

Determined by a small margin; having a salient characteristic determined by a small margin.

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.

(of land) Barely productive.

(politics, chiefly UK, Australia, New Zealand, of a constituency) Subject to a change in sitting member with only a small change in voting behavior, this usually being inferred from the small winning margin of the previous election.

(economics) Pertaining to changes resulting from a unit increase in production or consumption of a good.

Something or somebody that is marginal.

(politics) A constituency won with a small margin.