[syn: nominal, titular]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
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 toknenish gesture" [syn: nominal,
token(a), tokenish]
3: pertaining to a noun or to a word group that functions as a
noun; "nominal phrase"; "noun phrase"
4: of, relating to, or characteristic of an amount that is not
adjusted for inflation; "the nominal GDP"; "nominal interest
rates" [ant: real]
5: named; bearing the name of a specific person; "nominative
shares of stock" [syn: nominative, nominal]
6: existing in name only; "the nominal (or titular) head of his
party" [syn: nominal, titular]
n 1: a phrase that can function as the subject or object of a
verb [syn: noun phrase, nominal phrase, nominal]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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