Overmargin

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun

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."
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;"

Verb

1
To invest too much on margin, increasing risk and limiting operating capital.
"Algorithms in current use differ in their ability to select a matching that does not overmargin a complicated position."

Example

"Breastbeams—wood, cast steel, angles and channels—are carefully designed, with a big overmargin of strength."

Etymology

From over- + margin.

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