Both Uses of
marginal
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- Lockhart's Life of Napoleon (cover wanting, marginal annotations, minimising victories, aggrandising defeats of the protagonist).†
Chpt 17 *
- A Handbook of Astronomy (cover, brown leather, detached, S plates, antique letterpress long primer, author's footnotes nonpareil, marginal clues brevier, captions small pica).†
Chpt 17
Definition:
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(marginal) small in effect or amount; or at the edge or borderThe exact meaning of marginal depends upon its context. For example:
- "marginal improvement" -- small in quantity
- "marginal capability" -- small in effect
- "a marginal employee" -- barely adequate
- "marginal tax rate" -- at the edge or border