(economics) The increase in cost that accompanies a unit increase in output; the partial derivative of the cost function with respect to output.

The extra benefit received from a unit increase in the consumption of a good or service. It is calculated as the increase in total benefit divided by the increase in consumption.

(economics) A theory that attempts to explain the discrepancy in the value of goods and services by reference to their secondary, or marginal, utility.

(finance, historical) A method by which a merchant at home can render bills drawn upon him abroad saleable there, by associating a well-known banker's name on their margin with his own.

plural of marginal distribution

plural of marginal utility

plural of marginal farmer

A note in the margin of a document.

Relating to a volcanic eruption that is neither supraglacial nor subglacial, but where the lava flow comes into direct contact with the margin of a glacier or ice sheet.

(finance, economics) The cost of the marginal unit of capital that a firm could raise.