Usually means: At the edge, less significant.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. marginal: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. marginal: Merriam-Webster
  3. marginal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. marginal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. marginal: Collins English Dictionary
  6. marginal: Vocabulary.com
  7. Marginal, marginal: Wordnik
  8. marginal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. marginal: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. marginal: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. marginal: Dictionary.com
  12. marginal: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Marginal (album), Marginal (manga), Marginal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Marginal: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. marginal: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. marginal: Rhymezone
  17. marginal, marginal, marginal(e) (-aux): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. marginal: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. marginal: FreeDictionary.org
  20. marginal: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. marginal: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. marginal: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  23. marginal: Wiktionary

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. MARGINAL: Accounting Glossary
  4. Marginal: bizterms.net
  5. Marginal: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  6. Marginal: FACS Journalist's Guide to Economic Terms
  7. marginal: Legal dictionary
  8. Marginal: Financial dictionary
  9. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. marginal: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. marginal: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. marginal: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. marginal: Medical dictionary

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. Bryological (No longer online)
  4. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  5. Marginal: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Marginal: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See marginality as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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adjective:  (not comparable) Of, relating to, or located at or near a margin or edge; also figurative usages of location and margin (edge).
adjective:  Written in the margin of a book.
adjective:  (geography) Sharing a border; geographically adjacent.
adjective:  (comparable) Determined by a small margin; having a salient characteristic determined by a small margin.
adjective:  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.
adjective:  (of land) Barely productive.
adjective:  (politics, chiefly UK, Australia, New Zealand, of a constituency) 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.
adjective:  (economics, not comparable) Pertaining to changes resulting from a unit increase in production or consumption of a good.
adjective:  (sociology) Marginalized
noun:  Something or somebody that is marginal.
noun:  (politics) A constituency won with a small margin.

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