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Nominal   /nˈɑmənəl/   Listen
Nominal

adjective
1.
Relating to or constituting or bearing or giving a name.  "A nominal lists of priests" , "Taxable males as revealed by the nominal rolls"
2.
Insignificantly small; a matter of form only ('tokenish' is informal).  Synonyms: token, tokenish.  "A token gesture of resistance" , "A toknenish gesture"
3.
Pertaining to a noun or to a word group that functions as a noun.  "Noun phrase"
4.
Of, relating to, or characteristic of an amount that is not adjusted for inflation.  "Nominal interest rates"
5.
Named; bearing the name of a specific person.  Synonym: nominative.
6.
Existing in name only.  Synonym: titular.
noun
1.
A phrase that can function as the subject or object of a verb.  Synonyms: nominal phrase, noun phrase.



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"Nominal" Quotes from Famous Books



... what cannot be conceived clearly; admitting, says Simplicius, that such speculations were above physics. Parmenides employed similar expedients, comparing his metaphysical Deity to a sphere, or to heat, an aggregate or a continuity, and so involuntarily withdrawing its nominal attributes. ...
— Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry • Albert Pike
... witness of events and was disposed to resign and go to Greece, for the expense of living had become greater than I could bear, with my income of $1000. The Porte threatened to revoke my exequatur, than which nothing could have pleased me more, for the support of my government had become merely nominal, though I had never varied from my instructions. The grand vizier seemed to understand that, and the threat was withdrawn, while pressure was applied at Washington to induce the government to recall me, a minister ad ...
— The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume II • William James Stillman
... this," cried she, "placing nominal before actual evil? Is it not studying appearance at the expence of reality? If agreeing to wrong is criminal, is not performing it worse? If repentance for ill actions calls for mercy, has not repentance for ill intentions a ...
— Cecilia vol. 2 - Memoirs of an Heiress • Frances (Fanny) Burney (Madame d'Arblay)
... used to have a vessel running to Philadelphia, I think, and bringing him all sorts of delicacies. His way of raising money was to give a mortgage on his estate of a hundred thousand dollars at a time, and receive that nominal amount in goods, which he would immediately sell at auction for perhaps thirty thousand. He died by a chicken-bone. Near the house are the remains of a covered way, by which the French once attempted to gain admittance ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 • Various
... acting up because Corbett is the nominal head of the unit? Does he feel that he should be the command cadet in the control deck ...
— Stand by for Mars! • Carey Rockwell


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