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NOMINAL
nominal, titular
(adjective) existing in name only; “the nominal (or titular) head of his party”
nominative, nominal
(adjective) named; bearing the name of a specific person; “nominative shares of stock”
nominal, token, tokenish
(adjective) insignificantly small; a matter of form only (‘tokenish’ is informal); “the fee was nominal”; “a token gesture of resistance”; “a tokenish gesture”
nominal
(adjective) of, relating to, or characteristic of an amount that is not adjusted for inflation; “the nominal GDP”; “nominal interest rates”
nominal
(adjective) pertaining to a noun or to a word group that functions as a noun; “nominal phrase”; “noun phrase”
nominal
(adjective) relating to or constituting or bearing or giving a name; “the Russian system of nominal brevity”; “a nominal lists of priests”; “taxable males as revealed by the nominal rolls”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
nominal (not comparable)
Of, resembling, relating to, or consisting of a name or names.
Assigned to or bearing a person's name.
Existing in name only.
(philosophy) Of or relating to nominalism.
Insignificantly small.
Synonym: trifling
Of or relating to the presumed or approximate value, rather than the actual value.
(finance) Of, relating to, or being the amount or face value of a sum of money or a stock certificate, for example, and not the purchasing power or market value.
(finance) Of, relating to, or being the rate of interest or return without adjustment for compounding or inflation.
(grammar) Of or relating to a noun or word group that functions as a noun.
(engineering) According to plan or design.
Synonym: normal
(economics) Without adjustment to remove the effects of inflation.
Antonym: real
(statistics, of a variable) Having values whose order is insignificant.
(taxonomy) Of a species, the species name without consideration of whether it is a junior synonym or in reality consists of more than one biological species.
Noun
nominal (plural nominals)
(grammar) A noun or word group that functions as part of a noun phrase.
(grammar) A part of speech that shares features with nouns and adjectives. (Depending on the language, it may comprise nouns, adjectives, possibly numerals, pronouns, and participles.)
A number (usually natural) used like a name; a numeric code or identifier. (See nominal number on Wikipedia.)
(UK, police jargon) A person listed in the Police National Computer database as having been convicted, cautioned or recently arrested.
Hyponyms
• (grammar) noun, pronoun
Anagrams
• nonmail
Source: Wiktionary
Nom"i*nal, a. Etym: [L. nominalis, fr. nomen, nominis, name. See Name.]
1. Of or pertaining to a name or names; having to do with the literal meaning of a word; verbal; as, a nominal definition. Bp. Pearson.
2. Existing in name only; not real; as, a nominal difference. "Nominal attendance on lectures." Macaulay.
Nom"i*nal, n.
1. A nominalist. [Obs.] Camden.
2. (Gram.)
Definition: A verb formed from a noun.
3. A name; an appellation. A is the nominal of the sixth note in the natural diatonic scale. Moore (Encyc. of Music. )
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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