Of, relating to, or located at or near a margin or edge; also figurative usages of location and margin (edge).
The marginal area at the edge of the salt-marsh has its own plants.
Determined by a small margin; having a salient characteristic determined by a small margin.
His writing ability was marginal at best.
Pertaining to changes resulting from a unit increase in production or consumption of a good.
Something or somebody that is marginal.
[…] discusses those who belong to the discipline's dominant cults, the mainliners, and their relations with the marginals and mavericks.
A constituency won with a small margin.
Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin marginālis, equivalent to margin + -al.
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