emargination
Definitions
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- noun A notch (or series of notches) in a margin
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- noun The act of notching or indenting the margin, or the state of being so notched; also, a notch or shallow sinus in a margin.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- noun The act of taking away the margin, or the state or condition of having the margin taken away.
Examples
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In any case, it was easy to love the evidence in my hands: the emargination of the sixth primary of chiffchaffs, the blue-gray of the moulted greater coverts of first-year great tits, the reddish iris color of adult dunnocks, the fat keels of sedge warblers.
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Black; strongly punctured and shining; the clypeus and a spot above yellow; a narrow abbreviated line behind the eyes, a minute spot in their emargination, and the tips of the mandibles orange-red; the flagellum fulvous beneath.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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It is marked with two or three strong folds, one of which is at or near its termination forward, and another beneath, which gives a slight emargination to the bone.
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We have a nuclear power with one of the strongest armies of the world, and a strip of desperados with a hatred built on sixty years of emargination.
Note
The word 'emargination' comes from a Latin word meaning 'to remove the edge'.
