Marginal may refer to:
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''Marginal'' (album), the third album of the Belgian rock band Dead Man Ray, released in 2001
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''Marginal'' (manga)
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El Marginal'', Argentine TV series
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Marginal seat
A marginal seat or swing seat is a constituency held with a small majority in a legislative election, generally one conducted under a single-winner voting system. In Canada, they may be known as target ridings. The opposite is a safe seat. T ...
or marginal constituency or marginal, in politics
See also
Economics
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Marginalism
Marginalism is a theory of economics that attempts to explain the discrepancy in the value of goods and services by reference to their secondary, or marginal, utility. It states that the reason why the price of diamonds is higher than that of wa ...
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Marginal analysis
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Marginal concepts
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Marginal cost
In economics, the marginal cost is the change in the total cost that arises when the quantity produced is increased, i.e. the cost of producing additional quantity. In some contexts, it refers to an increment of one unit of output, and in others it ...
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Marginal demand
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Marginal product
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Marginal product of labor
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Marginal propensity to consume
In economics, the marginal propensity to consume (MPC) is a metric that quantifies induced consumption, the concept that the increase in personal consumer spending ( consumption) occurs with an increase in disposable income (income after taxes a ...
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Marginal rate of substitution
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Marginal use
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Marginal utility
Marginal utility, in mainstream economics, describes the change in ''utility'' (pleasure or satisfaction resulting from the consumption) of one unit of a good or service. Marginal utility can be positive, negative, or zero. Negative marginal utilit ...
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Marginal rate
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Margin (disambiguation)
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Marginalization
Social exclusion or social marginalisation is the social disadvantage and relegation to the fringe of society. It is a term that has been used widely in Europe and was first used in France in the late 20th century. In the EU context, the Euro ...
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Marginal intra-industry trade, where the change in a country's exports are essentially of the same products as its change in imports
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Marginal land
Marginal land is land that is of little agricultural or developmental value because crops produced from the area would be worth less than any rent paid for access to the area. Although the term ''marginal (disambiguation)#Economics, marginal'' is o ...
, land that is of little value because of its unsuitability for growing crops and other uses
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Marginal model In statistics, marginal models (Heagerty & Zeger, 2000) are a technique for obtaining regression estimates in multilevel modeling, also called hierarchical linear models.
People often want to know the effect of a predictor/explanatory variable ''X ...
, in hierarchical linear modeling
* Marginal observables, in physics; see
Renormalization group
In theoretical physics, the renormalization group (RG) is a formal apparatus that allows systematic investigation of the changes of a physical system as viewed at different scales. In particle physics, it reflects the changes in the underlying p ...
* Marginal person, in sociology; see
Marginalization
Social exclusion or social marginalisation is the social disadvantage and relegation to the fringe of society. It is a term that has been used widely in Europe and was first used in France in the late 20th century. In the EU context, the Euro ...
* Marginal plant, see
Bog garden
A bog garden is a type of garden that employs permanently moist (but not waterlogged) soil to create a habitat for plants and creatures which thrive in such conditions. It may exploit existing poor drainage in the garden, or it may be artificial ...
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Marginal distribution
In probability theory and statistics, the marginal distribution of a subset of a collection of random variables is the probability distribution of the variables contained in the subset. It gives the probabilities of various values of the variable ...
, in probability theory
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Marginal sea
This is a list of seas of the World Ocean, including marginal seas, areas of water, various gulfs, bights, bays, and straits. In many cases it is a matter of tradition for a body of water to be named a sea or a bay, etc., therefore all these ...
, commonly has two differing meanings
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Marginal seat
A marginal seat or swing seat is a constituency held with a small majority in a legislative election, generally one conducted under a single-winner voting system. In Canada, they may be known as target ridings. The opposite is a safe seat. T ...
, a constituency held with a small majority in an election
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Marginal sulcus, a portion of the cingulate sulcus of the brain
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Marginal zone B-cell, noncirculating mature B cells that segregate anatomically into the marginal zone (MZ) of the spleen
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