Margin may refer to:
Physical or graphical edges
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Margin (typography), the white space that surrounds the content of a page
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Continental margin
A continental margin is the outer edge of continental crust abutting oceanic crust under coastal waters. It is one of the three major zones of the ocean floor, the other two being deep-ocean basins and mid-ocean ridges. The continental margin ...
, the zone of the ocean floor that separates the thin oceanic crust from thick continental crust
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Leaf margin, the edge of a leaf
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Resection margin
A resection margin or surgical margin is the margin of apparently non-tumorous tissue around a tumor that has been surgically removed, called " resected", in surgical oncology. The resection is an attempt to remove a cancer tumor so that no portio ...
, the tissue near a tumor that is removed to ensure that no cancer cells are left behind
Economics and finance
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Margin of profit
Profit margin is a measure of profitability. It is calculated by finding the profit as a percentage of the revenue.
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There are 3 types of profit margins: gross profit margin, operating profit margin and net profit margin.
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, the fraction of revenue that is left after paying expenses
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Margin (economics)
Within economics, margin is a concept used to describe the current level of consumption or production of a good or service.Marginalism Definition. Investopedia. (2022). Retrieved 12 April 2022, from https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/marginal ...
, a set of constraints conceptualised as a border
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Margin (finance), a type of financial collateral used to cover credit risk
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''Margin'' (journal), an economics journal
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Contribution margin Contribution margin (CM), or dollar contribution per unit, is the selling price per unit minus the variable cost per unit. "Contribution" represents the portion of sales revenue that is not consumed by variable costs and so contributes to the covera ...
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Gross margin
Figurative edges
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Margin (machine learning)
In machine learning the margin of a single data point is defined to be the distance from the data point to a decision boundary. Note that there are many distances and decision boundaries that may be appropriate for certain datasets and goals. A ...
, the distance between a decision boundary and a data point
*Marginal frequency distribution, in statistics (
Frequency distribution § Joint frequency distributions)
Other uses
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''Margins'' (film), a 2022 Italian film by Niccolò Falsetti
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''The Margin'' (album), a 1985 album by Peter Hammill
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''The Margin'' (film), a 1976 French film by Walerian Borowczyk
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''The Margin'' (novel), a 1967 novel by André Pieyre de Mandiargues; basis for the film
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Margasin, or Margin, a village in Qazvin Province, Iran
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USS ''Margin'' (SP-2119), also ID-2119, a US Navy patrol boat 1918–1919
See also
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Margin Call'', a 2011 film
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Margin of safety (disambiguation)
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