Nominal

Definition: Nominal

Nominal

Adjective

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; "the fee was nominal"; "a token gesture of resistance"; (`tokenish' is informal as in "a tokenish gesture").

3. (grammar) "nominal phrase"; "noun phrase".

4. (economics) being value in terms of specification on currency or stock certificates rather than purchasing power; "nominal or face value".

5. Named; bearing the name of a specific person; "nominative shares of stock".

6. Being such in name only; "the nominal (or titular) head of his party".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "nominal" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Nominal

Cheapness

Gratuity; free quarters, free seats, free admission, pass, free pass, free warren, give-away, freebee; run of one's teeth; nominal price, peppercorn rent; labor of love.

Conformity

Typical, normal, nominal, formal; canonical, orthodox, sound, strict, rigid, positive, uncompromising, Procrustean.

Nomenclature

Nuncupatory, nuncupative; cognominal,nuncupatory, nuncupative; cognominal, titular, nominal, orismological.

Unsubstantiality

Vacant, vacuous; empty; eviscerated; blank, hollow; nominal; null; inane.

Word

Adjective: verbal, literal; nominal. conjugate, paronymous; derivative.

Crosswords: Nominal

Albanian (rated), French (nominal, titular), German (nominal), Indonesian (nominal), Portuguese (nominal, titular), Romanian (nominal, nominally, rated), Spanish (nominal, noun), Turkish (nominal, token).

Books

• Nominal Accentuation in Baltic and Slavic (reference)

• One syntax for all categories : merginmg nominal atoms in multiple adjunction structures (reference)

• Nominal and Verbal Plurality in Chadic (Publications in African Languages and Linguistics : No 12) (reference)

• Aspect, Eventuality Types and Nominal Reference (Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics) (reference)

• The nominal and verbal system of Fula (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

View over the nominal position of New Zealand from Galileo. (New Zealand, however, is not visible in the image as it is beneath the clouds.). Credit: NASA.

Mexican migrant housing. Edcouch, Texas. These units are owned by a labor contractor who rents them for a nominal sum to his group of workers. They remain in the lower valley working in the vegetable and citrus fields for about nine months of the year. Th. Credit: Library of Congress.

United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration training center, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland. Food is served appointees in cafeteria style on regular army mess kits. Each student is charged a nominal fee for maintenance while at. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

In the event of bonds, obligations or other evidence of indebtedness issued by Germany by way of security for or acknowledgment of her reparation debt being disposed of outright, not by way of pledge, to persons other than the several Governments in whose favour Germany's original reparation indebtedness was created, an amount of such reparation indebtedness shall be deemed to be extinguished corresponding to the nominal value of the bonds, etc., so disposed of outright, and the obligation of Germany in respect of such bonds shall be confined to her liabilities to the holders of the bonds, as expressed upon their face. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

A complete guide on Fuchs' dystrophy can be purchased from NORD for a nominal fee. (references)

While some of the listed articles are free to view, others can be purchased for a nominal fee. (references)

Business

Between 1996 and 1998, the U.K. market grew at a nominal rate of almost 25 percent. (references)

Circulation is free except for a nominal fee to cover handling and postage charges to qualified readers in the Asia Pacific. (references)

Despite a drop in oil prices, 1997 nominal GDP grew by 1.2 percent, to more than 176 billion dirhams (about 48 billion US dollars). (references)

Children

El Salvador

Only a nominal fee is charged to attend the national public university. (references)

Suriname

School attendance is free; however, most public schools impose a nominal enrollment fee, ranging from $4 to $24 (Sf10,000 to Sf60,000) a year. (references)

Haiti

Even in public schools there are nominal mandatory fees associated with sending a child to school (uniform, books, etc.), and these costs are beyond the means of many rural families. (references)

Civil Liberties

Russia

The Government imposes nominal emigration taxes, fees, and duties. (references)

Solomon Islands

The Department of Home and Cultural Affairs has a nominal policymaking role concerning religion. (references)

Russia

Many Russians firmly believe that at least nominal adherence to the Russian Orthodox Church is at the heart of what it means to be Russian. (references)

Economic History

Singapore

GDP (2000 nominal): $85 92 billion. (references)

Canada

Nominal GDP (2000): $675.42 billion. (references)

Canada

Nominal per capita GDP (2000): $21,788. (references)

Human Rights

Angola

The court system consists of the Supreme Court at the appellate level plus municipal and provincial courts of original jurisdiction under the nominal authority of the Supreme Court. (references)

Minorities

Russia

Many citizens believe that at least nominal adherence to the Russian Orthodox Church is at the heart of what it means to be Russian, and Russian Orthodoxy is considered in conservative nationalist circles as the de facto official religion of the country. (references)

Political Economy

Eritrea

Nominal GNP was estimated at $695 million. (references)

Political Rights

Afghanistan

Nominal president Burhanuddin Rabbani headed the Northern Alliance. (references)

Belgium

Voting in all elections is compulsory, and failure to vote is subject to a nominal fine. (references)

Kuwait

Four of those arrested received nominal fines, had their cases postponed, or were acquitted. (references)

Trade

Uzbekistan

Although the Central Bank's independence is guaranteed by Uzbek law, it is in fact nominal. (references)

Dominican Rep

Many U.S. exporters continue to complain that the fees are rarely nominal and often arbitrarily assessed. (references)

Bahrain

The fees are stated in Bahraini Dinars and vary from a nominal amount to five percent of the expected bid. (references)

Travel

Ghana

Several business centers in the major cities provide communication and document preparation services at a nominal fee. (references)

Qatar

While medicines are generally dispersed free of charge for Qatari patients, the expatriate communities pay a nominal charge. (references)

Morocco

Electrical Standards: Electric power in Morocco is 50 cycle, one and three phase, with nominal voltage in the largest cities at 220 volts. (references)

Worker Rights

Vietnam

Trade unions are controlled by the Party and have only nominal independence. (references)

Zambia

The strikes were settled when workers were awarded nominal salary increases. (references)

Fiji

The workers received a nominal pay increase; however, the strike attracted media attention. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "nominal": damages nominal ♦ in nominal terms ♦ nominal aphasia ♦ nominal approach path ♦ nominal aspect ratio ♦ nominal capacity ♦ nominal capital ♦ nominal consideration ♦ nominal damages ♦ nominal data ♦ nominal deviation ♦ nominal filter ♦ nominal fine ♦ nominal flight path ♦ nominal focal length ♦ nominal group ♦ nominal head ♦ nominal horse power ♦ nominal list ♦ nominal load of consuming appliances ♦ nominal par ♦ nominal partner ♦ nominal price ♦ nominal profile ♦ nominal quotation ♦ nominal range of an influencing factor ♦ nominal range of an influencing quantity ♦ nominal roll ♦ nominal salary ♦ nominal scale ♦ nominal scaled variables ♦ nominal Semidestructor ♦ nominal shares ♦ nominal stress ♦ nominal track ♦ nominal value ♦ nominal value of the shares ♦ nominal wage ♦ nominal wage income ♦ nominal weapon ♦ nominal zone of indecision ♦ plane of the nominal ils glide path. Additional references.

Ending with "nominal": quasi-nominal.

Albanian

në emrin e, sa për emër (nominally), personal (esoteric, individual, interior, nominative, one-man, personal, personalized, private, several), formal (formal, official, regular), emëror (nominative, substantival). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ضئيل (bantam, exiguous, fractional, imperceptible, insignificant, little, lowbrow, meager, meagre, piddling, puny, sketchy, slender, sparse, stingy, thin, wretched), ‏صوري شكلي (normal), ‏الأسمي, ‏إسمي, ‏رمزي (emblematic, figurative, symbolic, symbolical), ‏شكلي (distinct, false, formal, logomachy, modal, pernickety), ‏بالإ سم فقط. (various references)

Bulgarian 

само на книга, само по име, формален (formal, perfunctory, technic, technical), фиктивен (dummy, feigned, fictive, paper, phoney), номинален (titular), незначителен (cheap, dinky, fiddling, fractional, frivolous, immaterial, imperceptible, inappreciable, inconsiderable, inessential, inglorious, insignificant, least, little, mean, minor, minute, negligible, niggling, noteless, nugatory, obscure, one horse, outside, paltry, peddling, pettifogging, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, pimping, pokey, poky, poor, potty, puerile, pygmy, rabbity, scrubby, slight, small, small time, subfusc, tenuous, third class, tiddly, trifling, trivial, two-by-four, twopenny-halfpenny, unconsidered, unimportant), нищожен (exiguous, footling, insignificant, miserable, naught, negligible, nugatory, outside, paltry, peddling, pettifogging, pygmy, shabby, trifling, trivial), поименен, именен (denominative). (various references)

Chinese 

有名� 实. (various references)

Czech

nominální, jmenovitý, jmenný. (various references)

Danish

nominel (rated). (various references)

Dutch

nominaal (rated). (various references)

Farsi 

کم قیمت (Light), صوری (Ostensible, Simulate, Superficial), جزءی (Immaterial, Imperceptible, Inappreciative, Inconsiderable, Inconspicuous, Little, Minuscule, Minute, Negligible, Nip, Paltry, Partial, Peppercorn, Petty, Piddling, Remote, Retail, Rush, Small, Snatch, Trivial, Vain), اسمی (Asthmatic, Onomastic). (various references)

Finnish

nimellinen (rated). (various references)

French

nominal. (various references)

German

nominal. (various references)

Greek 

ονομαστικός (nominative). (various references)

Hebrew 

שמי (by name), סמלי (emblematic, figurative, symbolic, symbolical, token, typical). (various references)

Hungarian

névleges (titular), fiktív. (various references)

Indonesian

nominal, kata benda (noun). (various references)

Italian

nominale (noun, reputations, title, titles, titular). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ノイマン型 (christmas, fungo, Hague, heart, Hercules, hook, knob, knock, knockdown, knocker, knocking, knock-on, knockout, knot, know, know-how, knowledge, nautical mile per hour, Neumann-type, neuron, neurosis, no, noctovision, nocturne, nominal price, nominate, nomination, nomogram, nomograph, non career, non cling, non store retailing, non troppo, non-attachment disease, nonbank banking, nonbook, nonchalant, non-conforming design, nonfiction, nonius, nonpolitical, non-professional, nonrun, non-sectarian, nonsense, nonslip, nonstop, non-terminal, nontitle match, non-verbal, non-verbal communication, Noraism, Nordic, Norma, Normandy, Norway, nostalgia, nostalgic, nostalgie, notation, notch, notchback, notch-filter, nova, Nova Scotia, novel, novelty, nozzle, number, swastika, unaffiliated, vernier calipers, vernier micrometer), 名目 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ノミナル , めいもく (closing one's eyes, passing away). (various references)

Korean 

명목상. (various references)

Manx

ennymagh (nominative, subjective case, token). (various references)

Pig Latin

ominalnay.(various references)

Portuguese

nominativo (nominative, registered), nominal (titular), relativo a nome. (various references)

Romanian

nominal (nominally, rated), convenţional (artificial, conventional, conventionally, hypocritical, sham). (various references)

Russian 

условный (conditional, prearranged, probational, probationary), символический (emblematic, symbolic, symbolical), номинальный (indicated, rated, titular), номинал номинальный, ничтожный (exiguous, fiddling, lamentable, measly, naught, paltry, picayune, pitiful, poxy, twopenny-halfpenny), именной (nominative). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nominalni, nazivni, imenski. (various references)

Spanish

nominal (noun). (various references)

Swedish

symbolisk (emblematic, hieroglyphic, symbolic, symbolical, token). (various references)

Thai

แต่ในนาม, เกี่ยวกับชื่อ, เกี่ยวกับคำนาม (nounal), ซึ่งไม่สำคัญ (negligible, nickel-and-dime, niggling, niggly). (various references)

Turkish

nominal (token), sembolik (emblematic, emblematical, figurative, representative, symbolic, symbolical), sözde (alleged, allegedly, as if, as though, nominally, of a sort, of sorts, ostensible, professed, professedly, quasi, quasi-, reputed, self-styled, so called, soi-disant, supposed, would be), itibari (fictitious, fiduciary, notional, titular, token), ismen var olan, göstermelik (claptrap, false, for effect, for show, ostensible, pious, rose water, sample, specimen), düşük (abortion, fallen, falling, hypo-, low, miscarriage, subdued). (various references)

Ukrainian

умовний (conditional, contingent, factitious, provisional, provisory, relative, simulated, subjunctive), іменний (nominative, registered), символічний (allusive, emblematic, emblematical, symbolic, symbolical, typical), номінальний (rated, titular, token), мізерний (bare, beggarly, feeble, insignificant, miserable, naught, outside, paltry, pitiable, pokey, poky), загальний (aggregate, all out, appellative, blanket, collective, common, general, generic, generical, global, net, overall, pandemic, universal), поіменний. (various references)

Vietnamese 

như danh từ, giống danh t. (various references)

nominalis. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "nominal": nominalism, nominalisms, nominalist, nominalistic, nominalists, nominally, nominals. (additional references)

Words ending with "nominal": cognominal, denominal, pronominal. (additional references)

Words containing "nominal": pronominally. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Nominal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: domainal, Domhnall, naminal, negidal, nemine, Nilmini, Noamana, Nobinul, nomena, nomian, nomical, nomimal, nomina, nominality, nominall, nominals, nominell, nominer, nominis, nomminal, nomnal, noumenon, Numenor, Numia, numinal, numnah, Nurminen, ominal. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: amnion, nomina, oilman.

-2 letters: aloin, amino, amnio, anion, liman.

-3 letters: amin, anil, anon, lain, lima, limn, limo, linn, lino, lion, loam, loan, loin, mail, main, mano, milo, mina, moan, moil, mola, nail, naoi, noil, noma, nona.

-4 letters: ail, aim, ain, ami, ani, inn, ion, lam, lin, man, mil, moa, mol, mon, nam, nan, nil.

+1 letter: mandolin, mannitol, nominals.

+2 letters: denominal, mandoline, mandolins, mannitols, melatonin, nominally, nonanimal, nonfamily.

+3 letters: antimonial, calamondin, cognominal, councilman, dominantly, lamination, lampooning, mandolines, melatonins, nominalism, nominalist, nonmarital, nonmedical, nonmusical, nonoptimal, pronominal.

+4 letters: antimonials, calamondins, complainant, complaining, condimental, culmination, dimensional, elimination, emblazoning, fulmination, incompliant, lamentation, laminations, longanimity, malfunction, mandolinist, manifolding, mentionable, monolingual, multination, nationalism, nominalisms, nominalists, nonaluminum, nonchemical, noncriminal, nonfamilial, nonfamilies, nonmaterial, nonmetallic, nonmetrical, nonmilitant, nonmilitary, nonmystical, nonterminal, normalising, normalizing, plasminogen, synonymical, unanimously, unemotional, womanliness.