Definition of Margins

1. Noun. (plural of margin) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Margins

1. margin [v] - See also: margin

Medical Definition of Margins

1. The area of tissue surrounding a tumour when it is removed by surgery. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Margins

marginated
marginates
marginating
margination
margination of placenta
marginations
margined
marginella
margines
marginicidal
margining
marginirostral
marginless
marginocephalian
marginoplasty
margins (current term)
margins of error
margins of eyelids
margo
margo acetabularis
margo anterior fibulae
margo anterior pancreatis
margo anterior pulmonis
margo anterior radii
margo anterior testis
margo anterior tibiae
margo anterior ulnae
margo ciliaris iridis
margo dexter cordis
margo falciformis

Literary usage of Margins

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"Lvs. 5-5% ft. long, dark green above, paler beneath ; segments lanceolate, acuminate, 2 ft. long, 3%-3% in. wide, their margins entire, spiny in young ..."

2. Elements of Geology: A Text-book for Colleges and for the General Reader by Joseph LeConte (1896)
"About all these lakes is found a succession of terraces or old lake-margins. The highest of these marks the highest water-level, and is the oldest ..."

3. Flora of the Southern United States: Containing an Abridged Description of by Alvan Wentworth Chapman (1897)
"... drupe ovate, acute, compressed, with the margins somewhat winged. ... obtuse, finely punctate-glandular beneath, the thick margins revolute : umbels ..."

4. American Book Prices Current (1917)
"( lacking part of title-page, first and last leaves mounted. blank portion of i cut away, water-stains and old writing on some margins), Learmont, A., ..."

5. An Introduction to Entomology by John Henry Comstock (1920)
"The margins of wings.—Most insect wings are more or less triangular in outline; they, therefore, present three margins: the costal margin or costa (Fig. ..."

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