The phrase "marginal element of" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to refer to something major or significant that is part of something else, but is not the main focus. For example, you could say "This study found that the marginal element of exercise had a positive effect on mental health".
They were serious about pandering to the marginal elements of their party.
Four artists draw on marginal elements of film to make semiabstract paintings, works on paper and sculpture.
For his part, Nkurunziza insists the violence is the work of a handful marginal elements — a view that few would merit.
However, the structure within each unit is orbital, comprising nuclear and marginal elements, with variable sequencing.
If all you hear, read and see about an entire nation, religion, people and society are the marginal, disturbing elements of them in the spirit of sensationalism, you inevitably develop inaccurate and misleading images and information about the people around you.
What were once a marginal and niche element of the labour market have fast become the norm in some areas and sectors under this government.
A "rising tide of insecurity" in the job market since the last election was allowing employers to turn a "once marginal and niche element of the labour market" into the norm, Labour claimed on Sunday evening.
Then, we find the expected value of the error probability in a semi‐analytical way, over the marginal probability density function (PDF) of each element of H.
Let the marginal contribution of element i to a group S, with i ∉ S, be (2)Δ i (S ) = v (S ∪ { i }) - v (S ).
In an effort to ride any momentum picked up by Mr. Bush tonight, Republican leaders now plan to pass one element of the tax cut plan -- marginal rate reductions -- through the House as early as next week.
