From theMiddle Englishnominalle(“of nouns”), borrowed fromLatinnōminālis(“of names”), fromnōmen(“name”).
nominal (notcomparable)
- Of, resembling, relating to, or consisting of a name or names.
- Assigned to or bearing a person's name.
- Existing in name only.
anominal difference
- 1856 February,Thomas Babington Macaulay,Oliver Goldsmith, republished in 1865,The Miscellaneous Writings of Lord Macaulay,Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts and Green,page 300,
- At Edinburgh he passed eighteen months innominal attendance on lectures, and picked up some superficial information about chemistry and natural history.
2013 October 5, Joel Kotkin, “California’s New Feudalism Benefits a Few at the Expense of the Multitude”, inThe Daily Beast[1]:In contrast to the traditionally conservative or libertarian ethos of the entrepreneurial class, the oligarchy is increasingly allied with thenominally populist Democratic Party and its regulatory agenda.
- (philosophy) Of or relating tonominalism.
- Insignificantly small.
- Synonym:trifling
He gave me only anominal sum for my services.
2021 November 17, Andrew Mourant, “Okehampton: a new dawn for Dartmoor”, inRAIL, number944, page43:In the summer, DCC [Devon County Council] transferred ownership of the northern part of the station to NR for anominal £1, enabling it (and the platform) to become part of the rail network.
- Of or relating to the presumed or approximate value, rather than the actual value.
- Antonym:effective
Thenominal voltage is 1.5 V, but the actual figure is usually higher.
thenominal yield of a nuclear weapon
- (finance) Of, relating to, or being the amount or face value of a sum of money or a stock certificate, for example, and not thepurchasing power ormarket value.
- (finance) Of, relating to, or being the rate of interest or return without adjustment for compounding orinflation.
- (grammar) Of or relating to anoun or word group that functions as a noun.
This sentence contains anominal phrase.
- (engineering) According toplan ordesign.
- Synonym:normal
We'll just do anominal flight check.
Apart from the slightly high temperature, all the readings from the spacecraft arenominal.
1992,Neal Stephenson,Snow Crash, New York: Bantam Books,→ISBN,page 9:The slots are waiting. Waiting for hot pizza. And waiting. The Deliverator honks his horn. This is not anominal outcome.
- (economics) Without adjustment to remove the effects ofinflation.
- Antonym:real
My employer does not understand how low mynominal wage is.
Thenominal GNP of this country is pretty low.
1991, Richard J. Gilbert,Regulatory Choices: A Perspective on Developments in Energy Policy,page267:Comparisons of the costs of the Diablo Canyon plant with other nuclear power plants can be misleading because the available cost data are innominal dollars and therefore include the toll of inflation over the construction periods.
2001, Erich A. Helfert,Financial Analysis: Tools and Techniques: A Guide for Managers,page467:This simple process allows us to convertnominal dollars into inflation-adjusted real dollars.
- (statistics, of a variable) Having values whose order is insignificant.
- (taxonomy) Of aspecies, the species name without consideration of whether it is a juniorsynonym or in reality consists of more than one biological species.
2015 November 26, Mosè Manniet al., “Relevant genetic differentiation among Brazilian populations ofAnastrepha fraterculus (Diptera, Tephritidae)”, inZooKeys, volume540,→DOI:Since then, a good deal of research has documented and concluded that thenominal speciesA. fraterculus actually comprises an unresolved complex of cryptic species.
terms related tonominal (adjective)
of or relating to a name or names
of or relating to the presumed or approximate value
economics: without adjustment to remove the effects of inflation
statistics: having values whose order is insignificant
according to plan or design
nominal (pluralnominals)
- (grammar) Anoun or word group that functions as part of anoun phrase.
This sentence contains twonominals.
- (grammar) A part of speech that shares features with nouns and adjectives. (Depending on the language, it may comprise nouns, adjectives, possibly numerals, pronouns, and participles.)
2006,Donald Ringe,From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1)[2], Oxford: Oxford University Press,→ISBN, page12:A considerable number of derivednominals, especially thematic nouns, also exhibited o-grade roots.
- A number (usually natural) used like a name; a numericcode oridentifier. (Seenominal number on Wikipedia.)
Numeric codes of characters used in programming arenominals.
- (UK, police jargon) A person listed in thePolice National Computer database as having been convicted, cautioned or recently arrested.
part of speech that shares features with nouns and adjectives
- “nominal”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “nominal”, inThe Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,→OCLC.
Borrowed fromLatinnominālis.
nominal m orf (masculine and feminine pluralnominals)
- nominal
FromLatinnominalis. See there for more.
nominal (neuternominalt,plural and definite singular attributivenominale)
- (linguistics) Relating to a word orconstruction which may function innounlike manner;nominal
- Coordinate term:substantivisk
- (finance) Relating to thenominal value orface value (as opposed to thereal ormarket value);nominal
- Synonyms:nominel,pålydende
- Something whose existence, value or function is rathertheoretical orsymbolic, and which does not necessarily correspond to a reality;nominal,formal,in name only
- Synonyms:formel,nominel,af navn
- (statistics, of a variable) Having values whose order is insignificant;nominal
- Synonyms:nominel,pålydende
Inflection ofnominal | positive | comparative | superlative |
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| indefinite common singular | nominal | — | —2 |
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| indefinite neuter singular | nominalt | — | —2 |
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| plural | nominale | — | —2 |
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| definite attributive1 | nominale | — | — |
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1 When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite,
the corresponding "indefinite" form is used.
2 The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.
nominal n (singular definitenominalet,plural indefinitenominaler)
- (linguistics) A word or construction which may function in anounlike manner; anominal,nominalisation
- Coordinate terms:nominalisering,substantivering,substantiv
- (finance)Nominal value;face value
- Synonym:nominalværdi
Borrowed fromLatinnominālis.
nominal (femininenominale,masculine pluralnominaux,feminine pluralnominales)
- nominal
nominal m (pluralnominaux)
- nominal
Borrowed fromLatinnominalis.
nominal (strong nominative masculine singularnominaler,not comparable)
- nominal
Positive forms ofnominal (uncomparable)
- “nominal” inDigitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “nominal” in Uni Leipzig:Wortschatz-Lexikon
FromDutchnominaal, fromFrenchnominal, fromLatinnominalis.
- IPA(key): [noˈminal]
- Hyphenation:no‧mi‧nal
nominal
- nominal,
- existing in name only
- insignificantly small
- (grammar) of or relating to a noun or word group that functions as a noun
Learned borrowing fromLatinnōminālis.
- Rhymes:(Portugal)-al,(Brazil)-aw
- Hyphenation:no‧mi‧nal
nominal m orf (pluralnominais,notcomparable)
- nominal
Borrowed fromFrenchnominal,Latinnominalis.
nominal m orn (feminine singularnominală,masculine pluralnominali,feminine and neuter pluralnominale)
- nominal
Borrowed fromLatinnominālis.
- IPA(key): /nomiˈnal/[no.miˈnal]
- Rhymes:-al
- Syllabification:no‧mi‧nal
nominal m orf (masculine and feminine pluralnominales)
- nominal
