Margin
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Margin may refer to:
- Margin (economics)Margin (economics)In economics, a margin is a set of constraints conceptualised as a border. A marginal change is the change associated with a relaxation or tightening of constraints — either change of the constraints, or a change in response to this change of the constraints.- Extensive and intensive margins...
- Margin (finance)Margin (finance)In finance, a margin is collateral that the holder of a financial instrument has to deposit to cover some or all of the credit risk of their counterparty...
, a type of financial collateral used to cover credit risk - Margin (typography)Margin (typography)In typography, a margin is the space that surrounds the content of a page. The margin helps to define where a line of text begins and ends. When a page is justified the text is spread out to be flush with the left and right margins...
, the white space that surrounds the content of a page - Margin (machine learning)Margin (machine learning)In machine learning the margin of a single data point is defined to be the distance from the data point to a decision boundary. Note that there are many distances and decision boundaries that may be appropriate for certain datasets and goals. A margin classifier is a classifier that explicitly...
, the distance between a decision boundary and a data point - Continental marginContinental marginThe continental margin is the zone of the ocean floor that separates the thin oceanic crust from thick continental crust. Continental margins constitute about 28% of the oceanic area....
, the zone of the ocean floor that separates the thin oceanic crust from thick continental crust - Marginal frequency distribution in statistics
- Leaf margin, the edge of a leaf blade, also ID-2119, a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1918 to 1919
See also
- Gross marginGross marginGross margin is the difference between revenue and cost before accounting for certain other costs...
- Profit marginProfit marginProfit margin, net margin, net profit margin or net profit ratio all refer to a measure of profitability. It is calculated by finding the net profit as a percentage of the revenue.Net profit Margin = x100...
- Contribution marginContribution marginIn cost-volume-profit analysis, a form of management accounting, contribution margin is the marginal profit per unit sale. It is a useful quantity in carrying out various calculations, and can be used as a measure of operating leverage...
- Surgical marginSurgical marginSurgical margin, also known as tumor free margin, free margin, normal skin margin, and normal tissue margin, usually refers to the visible normal tissue or skin margin that is removed with the surgical excision of a tumor, growth, or malignancy.-Definition:Surgical margin in a surgery reports...