Nominal

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Nominal \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.
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     2. Existing in name only; not real; as, a nominal difference.
        "Nominal attendance on lectures." --Macaulay.
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     4. Hence: Insignificant; trifling; -- of prices or costs, as
        compared with the benefits gained; as, to pay a nominal
        sum for the data; a nominal fee.
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     3. Within acceptable limits; as expected; as, the hydraulic
        lines are at nominal pressure; -- used mostly in aviation
        and space operations.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Nominal \Nom"i*nal\, n.
     1. A nominalist. [Obs.] --Camden.
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     2. (Gram.) A verb formed from a noun.
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     3. A name; an appellation.
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              A is the nominal of the sixth note in the natural
              diatonic scale.                       --Moore
                                                    (Encyc. of
                                                    Music. )
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  nominal
       adj 1: 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"
       2: insignificantly small; a matter of form only (`tokenish' is
          informal); "the fee was nominal"; "a token gesture of
          resistance"; "a tokenish gesture" [syn: {token(a)}, {tokenish}]
       3: pertaining to a noun or to a word group that functions as a
          noun; "nominal phrase"; "noun phrase"
       4: being value in terms of specification on currency or stock
          certificates rather than purchasing power; "nominal or
          face value" [ant: {real}]
       5: named; bearing the name of a specific person; "nominative
          shares of stock" [syn: {nominative}]
       6: being such in name only; "the nominal (or titular) head of
          his party" [syn: {titular}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  92 Moby Thesaurus words for "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