Fraction vs Marginal - What's the difference?
fraction | marginal |
A part of a whole, especially a comparatively small part.
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A ratio of two numbers, the numerator and the denominator, usually written one above the other and separated by a horizontal bar.
(chemistry) A component of a mixture, separated by fractionation.
In a eucharistic service, the breaking of the .
A small amount.
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, passage=I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town.}}
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, title= The act of breaking, or state of being broken, especially by violence.
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(uncomparable) Of, relating to, or located at or near a margin or edge; also figurative usages of location and margin (edge) .
# Written in the margin of a book.
#* 1999 , R. I. Page, Introduction to English Runes , Boydell Press, page 198:
# (geography) Sharing a border; geographically adjacent.
(comparable) Determined by a small margin; having a salient characteristic determined by a small margin.
# Of a value, or having a characteristic that is of a value, that is close to being unacceptable or leading to exclusion from a group or category.
# (of land) Barely productive.
# (politics, chiefly, UK, Australia, NZ, of a constituency) Subject to a change in sitting member with only a small change in voting behaviour, this usually being inferred from the small winning margin of the previous election.
#* 2002 , Andrew Geddes, Jonathan Tonge, Labour?s Second Landslide: The British General Election 2001 ,
#* 2007 , Robert Waller, Byron Criddle, The Almanac of British Politics ,
#* 2010 , Nick Economou, Zareh Ghazarian, Australian Politics For Dummies ,
(economics, uncomparable) Pertaining to changes resulting from a unit increase in production or consumption of a good.
As nouns the difference between fraction and marginal
is that fraction is a part of a whole, especially a comparatively small part while marginal is something that is.As a verb fraction
is to divide or break into fractions.As an adjective marginal is
(uncomparable) of, relating to, or located at or near a margin or edge; also figurative usages of location and margin (edge) .fraction
English
Noun
(en noun)- With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get
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- Neither can the natural body of Christ be subject to any fraction or breaking up.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "fraction")Derived terms
* common fraction * complex fraction * decimal fraction * Egyptian fraction * field of fractions * fractional * improper fraction * ordinal fraction * partial fraction decomposition * partial fraction expansion * proper fraction * simple fraction * unit fraction * vulgar fractionReferences
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English
Adjective
(en-adj)- The marginal area at the edge of the salt-marsh has its own plants.
- In recent years there has been an increase in violence against marginal groups.
- There were more marginal notes than text.
- The early pages had marginal notes most of which were lost when rats nibbled away the manuscript edges.
- Monmouthshire is a Welsh county marginal to England.
- His writing ability was marginal at best.
- ''Having reviewed the test, there are two students below the required standard and three more who are marginal .
- He farmed his marginal land with difficulty.
- In Bristol West, Labour had a majority of only 1,000, so the seat is considered highly marginal this time around.
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- In ‘battleground’ seats with the Conservatives, Liberal Democrat vote shares increased most in the most marginal seats.
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- In Outer London, Harrow East is now a more marginal Labour hold than Harrow West.
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- The pendulum lists the seats from least marginal' to most '''marginal''' for the government on one side, and least '''marginal''' to most ' marginal for the opposition on the other side.