margin
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[edit] Etymology
From Latin marginis, genitive of margo (“edge, brink, border, margin”).
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- Rhymes: -ɑː(r)dʒɪn
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margin (plural margins)
- (typography) The edge of the paper that remains blank.
- (anatomy) The edge of any flat surface.
- 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page 7
- The lobule margins, furthermore, are arched away from the lobe, with the consequence that (when fully inflated) the abaxial leaf surface forms the interior lining of the lobule.
- 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page 7
- (finance) The yield or profit; the selling price minus the cost of production.
- A permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits, as a margin of error.
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edge of the paper that remains blank
selling price minus the cost
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[edit] Verb
margin (third-person singular simple present margins, present participle margining, simple past and past participle margined)
- To add a margin to.
[edit] External links
- margin in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- margin in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
