Crossword clues for nominal
nominal
- So-called revolutionary plan I monitor a little
- Small number by road regularly on call
- Small number - at least one left
- Lion man trained for virtually nothing
- Relating to names
- Insignificantly small - token
- In name only
- Satisfactory, to NASA
- Not worth mentioning
- Theoretical — token
- Small, as a fee
- Only in name
- Not real
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nominal \Nom"i*nal\, a. [L. nominalis, fr. nomen, nominis, name. See Name.]
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.-
Existing in name only; not real; as, a nominal difference. ``Nominal attendance on lectures.''
--Macaulay.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.
Within acceptable limits; as expected; as, the hydraulic lines are at nominal pressure; -- used mostly in aviation and space operations.
Nominal \Nom"i*nal\, n.
A nominalist. [Obs.]
--Camden.(Gram.) A verb formed from a noun.
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A name; an appellation.
A is the nominal of the sixth note in the natural diatonic scale.
--Moore (Encyc. of Music. )
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "pertaining to nouns," from Latin nominalis "pertaining to a name or names," from nomen (genitive nominis) "name," cognate with Old English nama (see name (n.)). Meaning "of the nature of names" (in distinction to things) is from 1610s. Meaning "being so in name only" first recorded 1620s.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of, resembling, relating to, or consisting of a name or names. 2 Assigned to or bearing a person's name. 3 Existing in name only. 4 (context philosophy English) Of or relating to nominalism. 5 (senseid en trifling) Insignificantly small; trifling. 6 Of or relating to the presumed or approximate value, rather than the actual value. 7 (context finance English) 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 (context finance English) Of, relating to, or being the rate of interest or return without adjustment for compounding or inflation. 9 (context grammar English) Of or relating to a noun or word group that functions as a noun. 10 (context engineering English) According to plan or design; normal. 11 (context economics English) Without adjustment to remove the effects of inflation; ''contrasted with'' real. 12 (context statistics of a variable English) Having values whose order is insignificant. n. 1 (context grammar English) A noun or word group that functions as a noun phrase. 2 (context grammar English) A part of speech that shares features with nouns and adjectives. 3 A number (usually natural) used like a name; a numeric code or identifier (see also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/nominal%20number).
WordNet
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"
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]
pertaining to a noun or to a word group that functions as a noun; "nominal phrase"; "noun phrase"
being value in terms of specification on currency or stock certificates rather than purchasing power; "nominal or face value" [ant: real]
named; bearing the name of a specific person; "nominative shares of stock" [syn: nominative]
being such in name only; "the nominal (or titular) head of his party" [syn: titular]
Wikipedia
In linguistics, the term nominal refers to a category used to group together nouns and adjectives based on shared properties. The motivation for nominal grouping is that in many languages nouns and adjectives share a number of morphological and syntactic properties. The systems used in such languages to show agreement can be classified broadly as gender systems, noun class systems or case marking, classifier systems, and mixed systems. Typically an affix related to the noun appears attached to the other parts of speech within a sentence to create agreement. Such morphological agreement usually occurs in parts within the noun phrase, such as determiners and adjectives. Languages with overt nominal agreement vary in how and to what extent agreement is required.
Nominal may refer to:
- Nominal (linguistics), one of the parts of speech
- Noun phrase or nominal phrase
- the adjectival form of " noun", as in "nominal agreement" (= "noun agreement")
In engineering, "nominal" is used to describe a measurement (or group of measurements) that matches the predicted value(s) within the expected margin of error.
Usage examples of "nominal".
And forasmuch as Something and Nothing would then become actual, as distinguished from nominal correlatives, we could have no guarantee that, in an absolute or transcendental sense, it may not be possible, although it is inconceivable, for Something to become Nothing or Nothing Something.
The area of the colony was 460,000 square miles, of which area 124,000 square miles were occupied by that singular aristocracy called squatters, men who rent vast tracts of land from Government for the depasturing of their flocks, at an almost nominal sum, subject to a tax of so much a head on their sheep and cattle.
This new and more complicated patterning presents general grammar with a necessary choice: either to pursue its analysis at a lower level than nominal unity, and to bring into prominence, before signification, the insignificant elements of which it is constructed, or to reduce that nominal unity by means of a regressive process, to recognize its existence within more restricted units, and to find its efficacity as representation below the level of whole words, in particles, in syllables, and even in single letters themselves.
Rave Evermore had tracked the progress of one particular container from bin to bin within the hold and declared that it had accumulated several thousand kilometers of additional travel beyond its nominal interplanetary journey.
With his double equipment as a lieutenant of the French king and as a condottiere of the Pope, he began by reviving the dormant authority of Rome, where nominal feudatories held vicarious sway.
Local complaints which charged the Governor with acting arbitrarily suggest an autocrat and make it quite clear that de Graaff was not a nominal or absentee governor, but fully aware and in control of all activities on his island.
But because we put down in an inventory three hectolitres of corn at 20 francs, or four hectolitres at 15 francs, and sum up the nominal value of each at 60 francs, does it thence follow that they are equally capable of contributing to the necessities of the community?
Van der Kamp saw to it that they got all the beer they wanted, a foul-smelling Kisi brew that packed quite a punch and for which he charged their employers what he thought was a nominal fee.
Remember who the nominal owner of the Pimlico and Westminster Land Company is.
The free states and cities which had embraced the cause of Rome were rewarded with a nominal alliance, and insensibly sunk into real servitude.
I had to close the shoji, with the fatiguing consciousness during the whole time of nominal rest of a multitude surging outside.
For her part Lejardin tended to gravitate to Prentice, both as nominal leader of the expedition and for reasons she had no need to explain.
Though she did not in the least want to let the thing out of her hands, Tirtha held it out to him as if her own curiosity was only nominal.
It crossed my mind that you might consent toer take on that role in a temporary and nominal fashion.
Unlike his nominal chieftain, Brek, Jacques had heard the not very unusual rumor that Prince Alexus had a new mistress.