marginal

IPA: mˈɑrdʒʌnʌɫ

(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.
(geography) Sharing a border; geographically adjacent.
(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 UK, 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.
(economics, not comparable) Pertaining to changes resulting from a unit increase in production or consumption of a good.

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