Marginal: Adj. 1. Extremely Small. "A Marginal Increase In {core} Can Decrease {GC} Time Drastically.

Marginal: Adj. 1. Extremely Small. "A Marginal Increase In {core} Can Decrease {GC} Time Drastically.

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:marginal: adj. 1. Extremely small. "A marginal increase in
{core} can decrease {GC} time drastically." In everyday
terms, this means that it is a lot easier to clean off your desk if
you have a spare place to put some of the junk while you sort
through it. 2. Of extremely small merit. "This proposed new
feature seems rather marginal to me." 3. Of extremely small
probability of {win}ning. "The power supply was rather marginal
anyway; no wonder it fried."
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary

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marginal adj. [common] 1. [techspeak] An extremely small change.
A marginal increase in core can decrease GC time drastically....
epsilon: [see {delta}] 1. n. A small quantity of anything.
"The cost is epsilon." 2. adj. Very small, negligible...
epsilon [see delta] 1. n. A small quantity of anything.
The cost is epsilon." 2. adj. Very small, negligible...
You are always doing something marginal when the boss drops by your desk.
de-rezz: /dee-rez'/ [from `de-resolve' via the movie "Tron"] (also `derez') 1.
vi. To disappear or dissolve; the image that goes with it is of an object breaking up into raster lines and static and then dissolving....
Marginal Hacks: n. Margaret Jacks Hall, a building into which the Stanford AI Lab was moved near the beginning of the 1980s (from the {D.
C. Power Lab}). -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
The margin is very marginal.
fritterware: n. An excess of capability that serves no productive end.
The canonical example is font-diddling software on the Mac (see {macdink})...