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Margin

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Margin may refer to:

Physical or graphical edges

  • Margin (typography), the white space that surrounds the content of a page
  • Continental margin, the zone of the ocean floor that separates the thin oceanic crust from thick continental crust
  • Leaf margin, the edge of a leaf
  • Resection margin, the tissue near a tumor that is removed to ensure that no cancer cells are left behind

Economics and finance

  • Margin (economics), a set of constraints conceptualised as a border
  • Margin (finance), a type of financial collateral used to cover credit risk
  • Margin (journal), an economics journal
  • Contribution margin
  • Gross margin
  • Profit margin, the fraction of revenue that is left after paying expenses

Figurative edges

  • Margin (machine learning), the distance between a decision boundary and a data point
  • Marginal frequency distribution, in statistics (Frequency distribution § Joint frequency distributions)

Other uses

  • The Margin (album), a 1985 album by Peter Hammill
  • The Margin (film), a 1976 French film
  • The Margin (novel), a 1967 novel by André Pieyre de Mandiargues; basis for the film
  • Margasin, or Margin, a village in Qazvin Province, Iran
  • USS Margin (SP-2119), also ID-2119, a US Navy patrol boat 1918–1919

See also

  • Margin Call, a 2011 film
  • Margin of safety (disambiguation)
  • margin of victory at Wiktionary
  • Marginal (disambiguation)
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