Found 2 items, similar to marginal cost.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: marginal cost marginal cost n : the increase or decrease in costs as a result of one more or one less unit of output [syn: incremental cost, differential cost ]
English → English (gcide) Definition: marginal cost marginal cost \marginal cost\, marginal cost of production \marginal cost of production\n. (Economics) The increase in total cost of production as a result of producing one more unit of output; since certain ovrhead costs are fixed, the marginal cost is almost aways less than the total per-unit cost of production averaged over all units produced. Syn: incremental cost, differential cost. [WordNet 1.5]