About The Word Nominal
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Nominal
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What's The Definition Of Nominal?
[adj] being such in name only; "the nominal (or titular) head of his party"
[adj] named; bearing the name of a specific person; "nominative shares of stock" [adj] insignificantly small; a matter of form only; "the fee was nominal"; "a token gesture of resistance"; (`tokenish' is informal as in"a tokenish gesture") [adj] (economics) being value in terms of specification on currency or stock certificates rather than purchasing power; "nominal or face value" [adj] (grammar) "nominal phrase"; "noun phrase" [adj] 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" Synonyms | Synonyms for Nominal: formal | minimal | minimum | nominative | specified | titular | token(a) | tokenish Related Terms | Find terms related to Nominal: abstract noun | adherent noun | adjectival | adverbial | alleged | apparent | attributive | budget | byname | cheap | cognominal | collective noun | common noun | conjunctive | copulative | correct | diminutive | easy | economic | economy | epithetic | formal | frugal | functional | gerund | glossematic | grammatic | honorific | hypocoristic | hypostasis | in name only | inconsiderable | inexpensive | insignificant | insubstantial | intransitive | linking | low | low-priced | manageable | minimal | minor | minuscule | moderate | modest | nominative | noun | noun phrase | ostensible | participial | postpositional | prepositional | pretended | professed | pronominal | pronoun | proper noun | proposed | propositional | puppet | purported | quasi | quotation noun | reasonable | representational | seeming | self-called | self-christened | self-styled | sensible | shabby | shoddy | small | so-called | soi-disant | structural | substantive | supposed | supposititious | syntactic | tagmemic | tiny | titular | token | transitive | trifling | trivial | unexpensive | verbal | within means | worth the money | would-be See Also | Nominal In Webster's Dictionary \Nom"i*nal\, a. [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.) 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. ) |
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