Margin

Margin may refer to:

Physical or graphical edges

• Margin (typography), the white space that surrounds the content of a page
• Continental margin, the zone of the ocean floor that separates the thin oceanic crust from thick continental crust
• Leaf margin, the edge of a leaf
• Resection margin, the tissue near a tumor that is removed to ensure that no cancer cells are left behind

Economics and finance

• Margin of profit, the fraction of revenue that is left after paying expenses
• Margin (economics), a set of constraints conceptualised as a border
• Margin (finance), a type of financial collateral used to cover credit risk
• Contribution margin
• Gross margin

Figurative edges

• Margin (machine learning), the distance between a decision boundary and a data point
• Marginal frequency distribution, in statistics (Frequency distribution § Joint frequency distributions)

Other uses

• Margins (film), a 2022 Italian film by Niccolò Falsetti
• The Margin (album), a 1985 album by Peter Hammill
• The Margin (film), a 1976 French film by Walerian Borowczyk
• The Margin (novel), a 1967 novel by André Pieyre de Mandiargues; basis for the film
• Margasin, or Margin, a village in Qazvin Province, Iran
• USS Margin (SP-2119), also ID-2119, a US Navy patrol boat 1918–1919

See also

• Margin Call, a 2011 film
• Margin of safety (disambiguation)
• margin of victory at Wiktionary
• Marginal (disambiguation)