Definition of nominals Nominals

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What does nominals mean?

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Adjective
nominal - of, relating to, or characteristic of an amount that is not adjusted for inflation; "the nominal GDP"; "nominal interest rates"
		economic science, economics, political economy the branch of social science that deals with the production and distribution and consumption of goods and services and their management
nominal - pertaining to a noun or to a word group that functions as a noun; "nominal phrase"; "noun phrase"
		grammar the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics)
nominal - existing in name only; "the nominal (or titular) head of his party"
		titular
nominal - insignificantly small; a matter of form only (`tokenish' is informal); "the fee was nominal"; "a token gesture of resistance"; "a toknenish gesture"
		token, tokenish
nominal - 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"
nominal - named; bearing the name of a specific person; "nominative shares of stock"
		nominative

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nominal (Noun)
A noun or word group that functions as a noun phrase .
nominal (Noun)
A part of speech that shares features with nouns and adjectives.
nominal (Adjective)
Of, resembling, relating to, or consisting of a name or names.
nominal (Adjective)
Assigned to or bearing a person's name.
nominal (Adjective)
Existing in name only.
nominal (Adjective)
Of or relating to nominalism.
nominal (Adjective)
Insignificantly small; trifling.
nominal (Adjective)
Of or relating to the presumed or approximate value, rather than the actual value.
nominal (Adjective)
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 .
nominal (Adjective)
Of, relating to, or being the rate of interest or return without adjustment for compounding or inflation.
nominal (Adjective)
Of or relating to a noun or word group that functions as a noun.
nominal (Adjective)
According to plan or design; normal.
nominal (Adjective)
Without adjustment to remove the effects of inflation; contrasted with real.
nominal (Adjective)
Having values whose order is insignificant.

nominal (a.)
Of or pertaining to a name or names; having to do with the literal meaning of a word; verbal; as, a nominal definition.
nominal (a.)
Existing in name only; not real; as, a nominal difference.
nominal (n.)
A nominalist.
nominal (n.)
A verb formed from a noun.
nominal (n.)
A name; an appellation.

nominal
Commonly called by such a name, often with a connotation that the item is not worthy of that name.
nominal
Being small or low in amount when compared with the actual value.

nominal
nom′in-al, adj. pertaining to a name: existing only in name: having a name.—ns. Nom′inalism, the doctrine that general terms have no corresponding reality either in or out of the mind, being mere words; Nom′inalist, one of a sect of philosophers who held the doctrine of nominalism.—adj. Nominalist′ic, pertaining to nominalism.—adv. Nom′inally. [L. nominalis—nomen, -ĭnis, a name.]