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   Nemean lion
         n 1: (Greek mythology) an enormous lion strangled by Hercules as
               the first of his 12 labors

English Dictionary: nominal by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Nomia melanderi
n
  1. a common solitary bee important for pollinating alfalfa in the western United States
    Synonym(s): Nomia melanderi, alkali bee
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
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"
    Synonym(s): 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"
    Antonym(s): real
  5. named; bearing the name of a specific person; "nominative shares of stock"
    Synonym(s): nominative, nominal
  6. existing in name only; "the nominal (or titular) head of his party"
    Synonym(s): nominal, titular
n
  1. a phrase that can function as the subject or object of a verb
    Synonym(s): noun phrase, nominal phrase, nominal
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
nominal aphasia
n
  1. inability to name objects or to recognize written or spoken names of objects
    Synonym(s): nominal aphasia, anomic aphasia, anomia, amnesic aphasia, amnestic aphasia
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
nominal damages
n
  1. (law) a trivial sum (usually $1.00) awarded as recognition that a legal injury was sustained (as for technical violations of a contract)
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
nominal head
n
  1. a person used as a cover for some questionable activity
    Synonym(s): front man, front, figurehead, nominal head, straw man, strawman
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
nominal phrase
n
  1. a phrase that can function as the subject or object of a verb
    Synonym(s): noun phrase, nominal phrase, nominal
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
nominal value
n
  1. the value of a security that is set by the company issuing it; unrelated to market value
    Synonym(s): par value, face value, nominal value
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
nominalism
n
  1. (philosophy) the doctrine that the various objects labeled by the same term have nothing in common but their name
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
nominalist
n
  1. a philosopher who has adopted the doctrine of nominalism
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
nominalistic
adj
  1. of or relating to nominalism
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
nominally
adv
  1. in name only; "nominally he is the boss"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.
  
      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"i*nal\, 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. )

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Damage \Dam"age\, n. [OF. damage, domage, F. dommage, fr.
      assumed LL. damnaticum, from L. damnum damage. See {Damn}.]
      1. Injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an
            inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief.
  
                     He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool
                     cutteth off the feet and drinketh damage. --Prov.
                                                                              xxvi. 6.
  
                     Great errors and absurdities many commit for want of
                     a friend to tell them of them, to the great damage
                     both of their fame and fortune.         --Bacon.
  
      2. pl. (Law) The estimated reparation in money for detriment
            or injury sustained; a compensation, recompense, or
            satisfaction to one party, for a wrong or injury actually
            done to him by another.
  
      Note: In common-law action, the jury are the proper judges of
               damages.
  
      {Consequential damage}. See under {Consequential}.
  
      {Exemplary damages} (Law), damages imposed by way of example
            to others.
  
      {Nominal damages} (Law), those given for a violation of a
            right where no actual loss has accrued.
  
      {Vindictive damages}, those given specially for the
            punishment of the wrongdoer.
  
      Syn: Mischief; injury; harm; hurt; detriment; evil; ill. See
               {Mischief}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Horse power \Horse" pow`er\
      1. The power which a horse exerts.
  
      2. (Mach.) A unit of power, used in stating the power
            required to drive machinery, and in estimating the
            capabilities of animals or steam engines and other prime
            movers for doing work. It is the power required for the
            performance of work at the rate of 33,000 English units of
            work per minute; hence, it is the power that must be
            exerted in lifting 33,000 pounds at the rate of one foot
            per minute, or 550 pounds at the rate of one foot per
            second, or 55 pounds at the rate of ten feet per second,
            etc.
  
      Note: The power of a draught horse, of average strength,
               working eight hours per day, is about four fifths of a
               standard horse power.
  
      {Brake horse power}, the net effective power of a prime
            mover, as a steam engine, water wheel, etc., in horse
            powers, as shown by a friction brake. See {Friction
            brake}, under {Friction}.
  
      {Indicated horse power}, the power exerted in the cylinder of
            an engine, stated in horse powers, estimated from the
            diameter and speed of the piston, and the mean effective
            pressure upon it as shown by an indicator. See
            {Indicator}.
  
      {Nominal horse power} (Steam Engine), a term still sometimes
            used in England to express certain proportions of
            cylinder, but having no value as a standard of
            measurement.
  
      3. A machine worked by a horse, for driving other machinery;
            a horse motor.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Nominalism \Nom"i*nal*ism\, n.
      The principles or philosophy of the Nominalists.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Nominalist \Nom"i*nal*ist\, n. (Metaph.)
      One of a sect of philosophers in the Middle Ages, who adopted
      the opinion of Roscelin, that general conceptions, or
      universals, exist in name only. --Reid.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Nominalistic \Nom`i*nal*is"tic\, a.
      Of or pertaining to the Nominalists.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Nominalize \Nom"i*nal*ize\, v. t.
      To convert into a noun. [Obs.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Nominally \Nom"i*nal*ly\, adv.
      In a nominal manner; by name; in name only; not in reality.
      --Burke.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Noumenal \Nou"me*nal\, a. (Metaph.)
      Of or pertaining to the noumenon; real; -- opposed to
      {phenomenal}. --G. H. Lewes.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Newman Lake, WA
      Zip code(s): 99025

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Nine Mile Falls, WA
      Zip code(s): 99026

From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
   Nominal Semidestructor n.   Soundalike slang for `National
   Semiconductor', found among other places in the Networking/2
   networking sources.   During the late 1970s to mid-1980s this company
   marketed a series of microprocessors including the NS16000 and
   NS32000 and several variants.   At one point early in the great
   microprocessor race, the specs on these chips made them look like
   serious competition for the rising Intel 80x86 and Motorola 680x0
   series.   Unfortunately, the actual parts were notoriously flaky and
   never implemented the full instruction set promised in their
   literature, apparently because the company couldn't get any of the
   mask steppings to work as designed.   They eventually sank without
   trace, joining the Zilog Z8000 and a few even more obscure also-rans
   in the graveyard of forgotten microprocessors.   Compare {HP-SUX},
   {AIDX}, {buglix}, {Macintrash}, {Telerat}, {ScumOS}, {sun-stools},
   {Slowlaris}, {Internet Exploder}.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   Nominal Semidestructor
  
      Soundalike slang for "{National Semiconductor}", found among
      other places in the {4.3BSD} networking sources.   During the
      late 1970s to mid-1980s this company marketed a series of
      {microprocessor}s including the {NS16000} and {NS32000} and
      several variants.   At one point early in the great
      {microprocessor} race, the specs on these chips made them look
      like serious competition for the rising {Intel 80x86} and
      {Motorola 680x0} series.   Unfortunately, the actual parts were
      notoriously flaky and never implemented the full {instruction
      set} promised in their literature, apparently because the
      company couldn't get any of the mask steppings to work as
      designed.   They eventually sank without trace, joining the
      {Zilog Z8000} and a few even more obscure also-rans in the
      graveyard of forgotten {microprocessor}s.
  
      Compare {HP-SUX}, {AIDX}, {buglix}, {Macintrash}, {Telerat},
      {Open DeathTrap}, {ScumOS}, {sun-stools}.
  
      (1994-12-23)
  
  
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