aptness propensity | a disposition to behave in a certain way, the aptness of iron to rust, the propensity of disease to spread |
marginal cost incremental cost differential cost | the increase or decrease in costs as a result of one more or one less unit of output |
proclivity propensity leaning | a natural inclination, he has a proclivity for exaggeration |
leaning propensity tendency | an inclination to do something, he felt leanings toward frivolity |
marginal placentation ventral placentation | with ovules borne on the wall along the ventral suture of a simple ovary |
marginal wood fern evergreen wood fern leatherleaf wood fern Dryopteris marginalis | North American fern with evergreen fronds |
marginal utility | (economics) the amount that utility increases with an increase of one unit of an economic good or service |
consume | engage fully, The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy |
consume ingest take in take have | serve oneself to, or consume regularly, Have another bowl of chicken soup!, I don't take sugar in my coffee |
consume eat up use up eat d deplete exhaust run through wipe out | use up (resources or materials), this car consumes a lot of gas, We exhausted our savings, They run through bottles of wine a week |
consume squander waste ware | spend extravagantly, waste not, want not |
devour down consume go through | eat immoderately, Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal |
consume | destroy completely, The fire consumed the building |
fringy marginal | at or constituting a border or edge, the marginal strip of beach |
borderline marginal | of questionable or minimal quality, borderline grades, marginal writing ability |
marginal | producing at a rate that barely covers production costs, marginal industries |
bare(a) marginal | just barely adequate or within a lower limit, a bare majority, a marginal victory |