margin
/ˈmɑɹ.d͡ʒɪn/ nom B2En français : marge
- The edge of the paper, typically left blank when printing but sometimes used for annotations etc.
- The edge or border of any flat surface.
- The edge defining inclusion in or exclusion from a set or group.
- A difference or ratio between results, characteristics, scores. · margin of victory
- A permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits. · margin of error
- The yield or profit; the selling price minus the cost of production.
- Collateral security deposited with a broker, to compensate the broker in the event of loss in the speculative buying and selling of stocks, commodities, etc.
- That which is ancillary; periphery. · This model merely nips at the margins.
Pluriel margins
Dans la bibliothèque
wrote, in a hand as small as possible, another note on the margin of his Horace, and then looking at the duke with the air of a man who thinks he has an idea of his own, while he is only commenting upon the idea of another, said:
Stocks and bonds, loans and mortgages, margins and securities—here was a world of finance, and there was no room in it for the human world or the world of nature.
On the margin was written, in Holmes’s precise hand:
Before her lay the final page of a sprawling manuscript, its margins filled with her meticulous, labyrinthine annotations.
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