Noun

(en noun)

Any condition, circumstance, opportunity or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end.

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* Shakespeare

Give me advantage of some brief discourse.

* Macaulay

the advantages of a close alliance

(obsolete) Superiority; mastery; — used with of to specify its nature or with over to specify the other party.

* Bible, 2 Corinthians ii. 11

Lest Satan should get an advantage of us.

Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit; as, the advantage of a good constitution.

(tennis) The score where one player wins a point after deuce but needs the next too to carry the game.

(soccer) The continuation of the game after a foul against the attacking team, because the attacking team are in a advantageous position.

* November 17 2012 , BBC Sport: Arsenal 5-2 Tottenham

Webb played an advantage that enabled Cazorla to supply a low cross from the left for Giroud to sweep home first time, despite Gallas and Vertonghen being in close attendance.

Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen).

* Shakespeare

And with advantage means to pay thy love.

Noun

(en noun)

(typography) The edge of the paper that remains blank.

The edge or border of any flat surface.

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The lobule margins , furthermore, are arched away from the lobe, with the consequence that (when fully inflated) the abaxial leaf surface forms the interior lining of the lobule.

(figuratively) The edge defining inclusion in or exclusion from of a set or group.

* 1999 , Pierre François, ''Inlets of the Soul: Contemporary Fiction in English and the Myth of the Fall, page 186,

As far as space is concerned, Mary Lamb finds herself at the farthest margin of society - among tramps - when the novel begins.

A difference between results, characteristics, scores.

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A permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits.

margin of error

(finance) The yield or profit; the selling price minus the cost of production.

(finance) Collateral security deposited with a broker to secure him from loss on contracts entered into by him on behalf of his principial, as in the speculative buying and selling of stocks, wheat, etc.