nominal
Short definition from Wiktionary
Adjective
- Of, resembling, relating to, or consisting of a name or names.
- Assigned to or bearing a person's name.
- Existing in name only.
- Of or relating to nominalism.
- Insignificantly small.
- Of or relating to the presumed or approximate value, rather than the actual value.
- 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.
- Of, relating to, or being the rate of interest or return without adjustment for compounding or inflation.
- Of or relating to a noun or word group that functions as a noun.
- According to plan or design.
- Without adjustment to remove the effects of inflation.
- Having values whose order is insignificant.
- Of a species, the species name without consideration of whether it is a junior synonym or in reality consists of more than one biological species.
Noun
- A noun or word group that functions as part of a noun phrase.
- 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.)
- A number (usually natural) used like a name; a numeric code or identifier. (See nominal number on Wikipedia.)
- A person listed in the Police National Computer database as having been convicted, cautioned or recently arrested.
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