Nominal : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Nominal	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Nominal
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
nominal 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 toknenish gesture" Synonym(s): nominal, token(a), tokenish pertaining to a noun or to a word group that functions as a noun; "nominal phrase"; "noun phrase" of, relating to, or characteristic of an amount that is not adjusted for inflation; "the nominal GDP"; "nominal interest rates" Antonym(s): real named; bearing the name of a specific person; "nominative shares of stock" Synonym(s): nominative, nominal existing in name only; "the nominal (or titular) head of his party" Synonym(s): nominal, titular n a phrase that can function as the subject or object of a verb Synonym(s): noun phrase, nominal phrase, nominal
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Nominal \Nom"inal\, 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. 2. Existing in name only; not real; as, a nominal difference. [bd]Nominal attendance on lectures.[b8] --Macaulay.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Nominal \Nom"inal\, n. 1. A nominalist. [Obs.] --Camden. 2. (Gram.) A verb formed from a noun. 3. A name; an appellation. A is the nominal* of the sixth note in the natural diatonic scale. --Moore (Encyc. of Music. )