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Nominal

Nominal Meaning & Definition
Nominal Definition And Meaning

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

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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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