nominal
English
/ˈnɒm.ɪnl̩/, /ˈnɑm.ɪnl̩/
adj
Definitions
- Of, resembling, relating to, or consisting of a name or names.
- Assigned to or bearing a person's name.
- Existing in name only.
- (philosophy) Of or relating to nominalism.
- Insignificantly small.
- Of or relating to the presumed or approximate value, rather than the actual value.
- (finance) 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.
- (finance) Of, relating to, or being the rate of interest or return without adjustment for compounding or inflation.
- (grammar) Of or relating to a noun or word group that functions as a noun.
- (engineering) According to plan or design.
- (economics) Without adjustment to remove the effects of inflation.
- (statistics) Having values whose order is insignificant.
- (taxonomy) 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.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English nominalle (of nouns) borrowed from Latin nōminālis (of names).
Origin
Latin
nōminālis
Gloss
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- adnominal English
- adnominalization English
- adnominalize English
- adnominally English
- antinominalism English
- denominal English
- denominally English
- misnominal English
- multinominal English
- nominalisation English
- nominalise English
- nominalism English
- nominalist English
- nominalistic English
- nominality English
- nominalizable English
- nominalization English
- nominalize English
- nominalizer English
- nominally English
- nominalness English
- non-denominal English
- nonnominal English
- plurinominal English
- polynominal English
- post-nominal English
- postnominal English
- postnominally English
- prenominal English
- prenominally English
- subnominal English
- uninominal English
- nōminālis Latin
- nominal French
- nominalle Middle English
- nominaal Afrikaans
- adnominal
- nominally
- denominal
- nominalist
- nominalize
- nominality
- uninominal
- misnominal
- nominalism
- nonnominal
- prenominal
- nominalise
- subnominal
- denominally
- postnominal
- polynominal
- nominalizer
- adnominally
- nominalness
- prenominally
- post-nominal
- adnominalize
- multinominal
- plurinominal
- nominalistic
- postnominally
- nominalizable
- non-denominal
- nominalization
- antinominalism
- nominalisation
- adnominalization