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overmargins

overmargins is the plural of overmargin.

overmargins is the third-person singular simple present indicative of overmargin.

Meaning of overmargin

Noun

overmargin (plural overmargins)

  1. The amount by which something is bigger, stronger, or with greater capacity than the absolute minimum.
    • Breastbeams—wood, cast steel, angles and channels—are carefully designed, with a big overmargin of strength.1914, American Lumberman, page 99
  2. The upper rim or border of something.
    • The processes of sabkhaization imply an overmargin shallow biogenic marine carbonate sedimentation mixed with distal alluvial fan deposition followed by solution redeposition of the carbonate to sulfate and dolomite;1990, Egyptian Journal of Geology - Volume 34, Issues 1-2, page 172

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Questions about overmargins

What is overmargins the plural of?
Overmargins is the plural of overmargin.

Words near overmargins in the dictionary

  1. overmarches
  2. overmarching
  3. overmargin
  4. overmargined
  5. overmargining
  6. overmargins
  7. overmarinated
  8. overmark
  9. overmarked
  10. overmarket
  11. overmarketed

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