Word Finder - marginal

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Something that is marginal.

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A constituency won with a small margin.

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

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In recent years there has been an increase in violence against marginal groups.

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

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

The marginal tentacles are rarely absent in non-parasitic forms, and are typically four in number, corresponding to the four perradii marked by the radial canals.

Insects, especially running insects, which have followed the track of honey glands upwards from the stem along the leaf, reach the mouth of the pitcher, and in their efforts to sip the attractive marginal glands fall over into the liquid.

Although the marginal note in the coronation order of Queen Victoria indicates "K.

Zwingli, who details these articles, as he says, that the world may see that they are "fanatical, stolid, audacious, impious," can scarcely be acquitted of unfairness in joining together two of them, - the fourth and fifth, - thus making the article treat "of the avoiding of abominable pastors in the church" (Super devitatione abominabilium pastorum in Ecclesia), though there is nothing about pastors in the fourth article, and nothing about abominations in the fifth, and though in a marginal note he himself explains that the first two copies that were sent him read as he does, but the other copies make two articles, as in fact they evidently are.

The stomach has sixteen marginal pouches and the general anatomical structure recalls that of Pelagia.

Agave americana, century plant, was introduced into Europe about the middle of the 16th century and is now widely cultivated for its handsome appearance; in the variegated forms the leaf has a white or yellow marginal or central stripe from base to apex.

As regards the discovery of the connexion between value in exchange and final (or marginal) utility, the priority belongs to Gossen, but this in no way detracts from the great importance of the service which Jevons rendered to English economics by his fresh discovery of the principle, and by the way in which he ultimately forced it into notice.

The separate nervecentres are, as a rule, placed in communication only by the general nerve-plexus, but in Charybdaea there is a zigzag marginal nerve connecting them up.

Epidermal appendages are rare, the most frequent being marginal, saw-like, cartilaginous teeth, usually minute, but occasionally (Danthonia scabra, Panicum serratum) so large as to give the margin a serrate appearance.

The policy would also leave the lowest income earners paying exactly the same high marginal rates of tax.

The absence of the author's final revision may partly account for many repetitions, and for some contradictions, for mistakes in passages borrowed from Greek authors, and for the insertion of marginal additions at wrong places in the text.

Mussinii, i ft., is a compactly spreading greyishleaved labiate, with lavender-blue flowers, and is sometimes used for bedding or for marginal lines in large compound beds.

Among its auxiliary establishments are a good natural history museum, an observatory, a laboratory, and a library which contains a copy of Erasmus' New Testament with marginal annotations by Luther.

There are marginal readings which show that two different recensions existed once in Hebrew.

The Hebrew marginal readings occasionally seem to be translations from the Greek or Syriac, e.g.

As the leaves unfold from the centre of the rosette the impression of the marginal spines is very conspicuous on the still erect younger leaves.

The frequent roughnesses of the traditional text suggest, however,that here and there marginal glosses may have crept in.

A tentaculocyst (" colleto-cysto- o, phore" or " marginal anchor ") se, seen from the subumbral side.

The mouth leads into the (From Gegenbaur.) spacious stomach containing a, Marginal lappets hiding tenthe four conspicuous horse taculocysts.

The adradial canals are unbranched and run to the middle point of one of the marginal lobes.

The rhopalia are lodged in the notches be tween the marginal lobes of the umbrella, and each rhopalium is covered over by a little protecting flap or lappet.

The drawing represents a section, taken in marginal lappets forming pit.

The ephyra has a flat, disk-shaped body, with eight marginal lobes (four perradial, four interradial); a tentaculocyst is lodged in a deep notch at the apex of each lobe.

Sessile, stalked, with eight shallow marginal lobes bearing one or more rows of tentacles; without tentaculocysts; with four gonads.

With sixteen marginal lobes, four rhopalia and twelve tentacles; the rhopalia are perradial in position, corresponding to the angles of the stomach.

A, Peduncle; b, scaly bud; the more internal part of B, leaf bearing marginal ovule.

They have two circlets of tentacles, a labial and a marginal, and there is only one ciliated groove in the stomodaeum, which appears to be the sulculus.

The tiger and wild boar haunt the thickets beside the Tarim, wild duck and wild geese throng its waters, and more especially the waters of its marginal and deltaic lakes.

This addition may therefore have been originally the marginal note of a pious scribe which was afterwards transferred to the text.

The elongated receptacle of the marginal sori is surrounded by a basal cup-shaped indusium.

Before that—at the turn of the century—it was marginal at best.

A change in the marginal propensity to consume causes a pivotal change in the consumption function.

Often, only marginal benefits accrued, depending very much upon the source of inlet air.

Such a checklist needs to be given equal weight alongside financial sustainability criteria, rather being just a marginal afterthought.

To avoid alienation of patient groups, NICE needs to demonstrate that patients ' views have had more than a marginal impact.

Even marginal biotin deficiency is teratogenic in mice [17] and implicated in human birth defects [18] .

They can be planted with clumps of reed, reed canary grass or other marginal vegetation.

The studies on marginal leakage were the first indications that secondary caries was not always caused by incomplete cavity preparation.

To make sure marginal effect here they focus the insurance company.

There is a marginal impairment but any difficulties can be adequately compensated for through his right eye.

Marginal peat cutting has extended around most of the bog.

I'd never felt decadent enough to burn film that fast, but with digital there's zero marginal cost.

It is notable (and probably deliberate) that at few radon conferences are the benefits of marginal intervention assessed in a health context.

Some sections experience marginal but very real gains, while others see their already miserable conditions grow even more desperate.

The marginal subject is inclined to define itself via a process of negative dialectic.

The narrative structure is essentially digressive, building the characters through vignettes that weave together fragments, marginal notes, and asides.

On the other hand greater effort means greater disutility to the agent; we also assume that the marginal disutility of effort is increasing.

Marginal new york group health insurance tax rates even higher levels impute medicaid enrollment.

The low unemployment Ace refers to is being sustained by this very flaky marginal demand.

This translation also quickly dropped out of circulation, but much of its content survived in marginal glosses.