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| nominal | |
| 1. adj. Of, resembling, relating to, or consisting of a name or names. |  |
| 2. adj. Assigned to or bearing a person's name. | |
| 3. adj. Existing in name only. | |
| a nominal difference | |
| 4. adj. (philosophy) Of or relating to nominalism. | |
| 5. adj. Insignificantly small; trifling. | |
| He gave me only a nominal sum for my services. | |
| 6. adj. Of or relating to the presumed or approximate value, rather than the actual value. | |
| The nominal voltage is 1.5 V, but the actual figure is usually higher. | |
| 7. adj. (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. | |
| 8. adj. (finance) Of, relating to, or being the rate of interest or return without adjustment for compounding or inflation. | |
| 9. adj. (grammar) Of or relating to a noun or word group that functions as a noun. | |
| This sentence contains a nominal phrase. | |
| 10. adj. (engineering) According to plan or design; normal. | |
| We'll just do a nominal flight check. | |
| Apart from the slightly high temperature, all the readings from the spacecraft are nominal. | |
| 11. adj. (economics) Without adjustment to remove the effects of inflation; contrasted with real. | |
| My employer does not understand how low my nominal wage is. | |
| The nominal GNP of this country is pretty low. | |
| 12. adj. (statistics, of a variable) Having values whose order is insignificant. | |
| 13. n. (grammar) A noun or word group that functions as a noun phrase. | |
| This sentence contains two nominals. | |
| 14. n. (grammar) A part of speech that shares features with nouns and adjectives. | |
| 15. n. A number (usually natural) used like a name; a numeric code or identifier (see also wikipedia). | |
| Numeric codes of characters used in programming are nominals. | |
