Definition: 1. Very slightly; not very much. 2. In a marginal manner.
Use 'marginally' in a sentence:
1. O(log n) behavior is measurably slower, but only marginally for very large task counts.
2. Sales last year were marginally higher than in 1991.
3. The dollar was at 32.26 baht midday Wednesday, up marginally from 32.24 baht late Friday in Asia.
4. Finally, it takes the information returned from the registry and does something marginally useful with it.
5. Indeed, the fourth generation is marginally worse off than the third.
6. This may mean marginally more calorie expenditure each day.
7. Bands that have had their songs in an Apple AD are still marginally acceptable.
8. They have over a billion people to support on an economy which is marginally bigger than Japan.
9. Some analysts remain skeptical and predict the market will only recover marginally by the middle of next year.
10. We can still sell it and even marginally improve it, but it's not new anymore.
11. If a test marginally passes, but some things dont fully work, you can say 70% pass, 30% fail by using the weight sliders.
12. If you say no, however, it may surprise you to learn that you are only unemployed if you've been actively looking for work in the past four weeks ； otherwise, you are "marginally attached to the labor force" and not actually unemployed.
13. even a marginally secret service.
14. This year's profits were marginally higher than last year's.
15. Proxy servers make it quite possible that the IP address visible to the server is only marginally useful, however.
16. Prediction on high cycle life of blades using probability method By analysis, bolt fatigue stress is marginally high.
17. Employment growth was negative in Chinese agriculture and marginally positive in Indian.
18. That may have been marginally bad for their health-but it does not explain the huge jump in the death rate.
19. But they can only marginally reduce, not eliminate the hazards.
20. Results are only marginally better this year.
21. Social conditions were only marginally better than those they had left.
22. Yet Saab has lost money for years and Volvo has been only marginally profitable.
23. That, obviously, increased, if only marginally.
24. Sales on Daimler's home turf slipped marginally and in the US, the firm's second largest market, sales grew only by 1.8%.
25. This may look bad, but the numbers appear marginally better than they have in recent years.
26. Layers were and are a lifesaver for any marginally complex design.
27. Other studies have shown that the network marginally prefers conservative guests.
28. Revenue last year rose marginally.
29. The addition of new scalar rules in a rule set usually only increases its execution time marginally.
30. The features are only marginally significant at95% level on a statistical basis.
31. The fund has outperformed the MSCI Emerging Markets index year-to-date, up marginally by 0.45%.
32. Instead promoting a full blown methodology change offer something small to help make either one of these marginally better.
33. For the moment they are expanding their loan portfolios only marginally.
34. Lower interest rates have relieved the burden somewhat and stimulus packages have reduced unemployment marginally.
35. More importantly in the Chinese context, money supply growth is also slowing, albeit marginally.
36. And it's marginally faster to add 0.5 twice than to add 1. Could that possibly be?
37. Security and the prospect of higher salaries may make an academic career look marginally more attractive.
38. Their faces were only marginally different.
39. They now cost marginally more than they did last year.
40. For much of 2008 these markets seemed only marginally affected by the slowdown in the developed West.
41. They're only marginally effective and shouldn't be used for longer than three days.
42. Firms may also choose to cannibalise their own products by producing marginally improved products.
43. Nothing like that has shown up in America: the BPP's daily inflation rate only marginally overshoots the official measure.
44. By 2007, the share had fallen only marginally, to 27.4 percent.
45. Are "marginally useful things" what we're really here to accomplish?
46. But don't let a marginally faster airport experience lull you into complacency.
47. Because everything takes place in memory, as illustrated in Figure 2, it is marginally more efficient.
48. The deal on Spain was marginally better on paper.
49. A gas horn is marginally lower at 121.4 decibels.
50. By analysis, bolt fatigue stress is marginally high.
51. The interaction effect between gender and age is significant on P and FC marginally.
52. Sadat's direct contact with us made that role only marginally necessary.
53. The Christian Democrats did marginally worse than expected.
54. These cameras have increased only marginally in value over the past decade.
