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nominal

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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 ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a nominal charge (= a very small amount of money ) ▪ You can use the tennis courts for a nominal charge. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN amount ▪ Schemes vary, but usually you keep on your mortgage by holding back ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nominal \Nom"i*nal\, n. A nominalist. [Obs.] --Camden. (Gram.) A verb formed from a noun. A name; an appellation. A is the nominal of the sixth note in the natural diatonic scale. --Moore (Encyc. of Music. )

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.