plural of marginal cost

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

A farmer with a bare subsistence level of income from their own land, sometimes working as an agricultural laborer. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see marginal, farmer.

The projection of a joint probability distribution onto one of its component random variables.

(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.

A note in the margin of a document.

plural of margin of victory

(countable) Difference in score between the winner of a competition and the second-place finisher.

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.

The ratio of net income to net sales of a company expressed as a percentage.