资料来源 : pyDict
边缘的,末端的,有旁注的
资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Marginal \Mar"gin*al\, a. [Cf. F. marginal.]
1. Of or pertaining to a margin.
2. Written or printed in the margin; as, a marginal note or
gloss.
资料来源 : WordNet®
marginal
adj 1: at or constituting a border or edge; "the marginal strip of
beach" [syn: {fringy}]
2: of questionable or minimal quality; "borderline grades";
"marginal writing ability" [syn: {borderline}]
3: of a bare living gained by great labor; "the sharecropper's
hardscrabble life"; "a marginal existence" [syn: {hardscrabble}]
4: just barely adequate or within a lower limit; "a bare
majority"; "a marginal victory" [syn: {bare(a)}]
5: producing at a rate that barely covers production costs;
"marginal industries"; "marginal land"
6: of something or someone close to a lower limit or lower
class; "marginal abilities"
资料来源 : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing
marginal
1. Extremely small. "A marginal increase in {core}
can decrease {GC} time drastically." In everyday terms, this
means that it is a lot easier to clean off your desk if you
have a spare place to put some of the junk while you sort
through it.
2. Of extremely small merit. "This proposed new feature seems
rather marginal to me."
3. Of extremely small probability of {win}ning. "The power
supply was rather marginal anyway; no wonder it fried."
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(1994-10-21)