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marginal
English
Etymology
Borrowing from Medieval Latin margin?lis.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?m???d??n.?l/
Adjective
marginal (not generally comparable, comparative more marginal, superlative most marginal)
- (not comparable) Of, relating to, or located at or near a margin or edge; also figurative usages of location and margin (edge).
- Written in the margin of a book.
- 1999, R. I. Page, Introduction to English Runes, Boydell Press, page 198:
- The early pages had marginal notes most of which were lost when rats nibbled away the manuscript edges.
- 1999, R. I. Page, Introduction to English Runes, Boydell Press, page 198:
- (geography) Sharing a border; geographically adjacent.
- Written in the margin of a book.
- (comparable) 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 Britain, 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.
- 2002, Andrew Geddes, Jonathan Tonge, Labour?s Second Landslide: The British General Election 2001, page 79,
- In ‘battleground’ seats with the Conservatives, Liberal Democrat vote shares increased most in the most marginal seats.
- 2007, Robert Waller, Byron Criddle, The Almanac of British Politics, page 58,
- In Outer London, Harrow East is now a more marginal Labour hold than Harrow West.
- 2010, Nick Economou, Zareh Ghazarian, Australian Politics For Dummies, unnumbered page,
- The pendulum lists the seats from least marginal to most marginal for the government on one side, and least marginal to most marginal for the opposition on the other side.
- 2002, Andrew Geddes, Jonathan Tonge, Labour?s Second Landslide: The British General Election 2001, page 79,
- 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.
- (economics, not comparable) Pertaining to changes resulting from a unit increase in production or consumption of a good.
Derived terms
Related terms
- margin
- marginalia
Translations
Noun
marginal (plural marginals)
- Something that is marginal.
- (politics) A constituency won with a small margin.
Translations
Anagrams
- alarming
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /m??.?i?nal/
- (Central) IPA(key): /m?r.?i?nal/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /ma?.d??i?nal/
Adjective
marginal (masculine and feminine plural marginals)
- marginal
Related terms
- marge
Further reading
- “marginal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
French
Etymology
From Medieval Latin marginalis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ma?.?i.nal/
- Homophones: marginale, marginales
Adjective
marginal (feminine singular marginale, masculine plural marginaux, feminine plural marginales)
- Written in the margin of a book; marginal
- Of, relating to, or located at a margin or an edge; marginal
- Outside the mainstream; fringe, fringy
- Of lesser importance; secondary
Derived terms
Noun
marginal m (plural marginaux)
- A person that chose to live on the fringes of society; dropout, misfit
Further reading
- “marginal” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
German
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -a?l
Adjective
marginal (not comparable)
- marginal
Declension
Further reading
- “marginal” in Duden online
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Latin marginalis
Adjective
marginal (neuter singular marginalt, definite singular and plural marginale)
- marginal
References
- “marginal” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Latin marginalis
Adjective
marginal (neuter singular marginalt, definite singular and plural marginale)
- marginal
References
- “marginal” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese
Etymology
From Medieval Latin margin?lis.
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /m??.?i.?na?/
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ma?.?i.?naw/
- Hyphenation: mar?gi?nal
Adjective
marginal m or f (plural marginais, comparable)
- marginal
Noun
marginal m, f (plural marginais)
- someone who rejects society's customs and laws (often referring to a criminal)
Romanian
Etymology
From French marginal.
Adjective
marginal m or n (feminine singular marginal?, masculine plural marginali, feminine and neuter plural marginale)
- marginal
Declension
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ma?xi?nal/, [ma?.xi?nal]
Adjective
marginal (plural marginales)
- marginal
Derived terms
- callosomarginal
- mar marginal
- septomarginal
Related terms
- margen
Further reading
- “marginal” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
Swedish
Noun
marginal c
- a margin
Declension
Related terms
- marginalisera
- marginell
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periphery
English
Etymology
From Middle English periferie, from Old French peripherie, from Late Latin peripheria, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (periphéreia, “the line around the circle, circumference, part of a circle, an arc, the outer surface”), from ????????? (peripher?s, “moving around, round, circular”), from ???????? (periphér?, “I carry around, move around”), from ???? (perí, “around, about, near”) (English peri-) + ???? (phér?, “I bear, carry”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p????f??i/
- Hyphenation US: pe?riph?ery; UK: per?iph?ery
Noun
periphery (plural peripheries)
- The outside boundary, parts or surface of something.
- The suburbs are a city's periphery.
- A first-rank administrative division of Greece, subdivided in provinces.
Antonyms
- center
Related terms
- peripherad
- peripheral
Translations
Further reading
- periphery in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- periphery in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
periphery From the web:
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