Noun

(en noun)

(money) A piece of currency, usually metallic and in the shape of a disc, but sometimes polygonal, or with a hole in the middle.

* 1883: (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island)

...the coins were of all countries and sizes - doubloons, and louis d'ors, and guineas, and pieces of eight...

A token used in a special establishment like a casino (also called a chip).

(figurative) That which serves for payment or recompense.

* Hammond

The loss of present advantage to flesh and blood is repaid in a nobler coin .

One of the suits of minor arcana in tarot, or a card of that suit.

A quoin; a corner or external angle; a wedge.

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.