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adjective
1.
being such in name only; so-called; putative: a nominal treaty; the nominal head of the country.
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(of a price, consideration, etc.) named as a mere matter of form, being trifling in comparison with the actual value; minimal.
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of, pertaining to, or constituting a name or names.
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EXPANDassigned to a person by name: nominal shares of stock.
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containing, bearing, or giving a name or names.
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(of money, income, or the like) measured in an amount rather than in real value: Nominal wages have risen 50 percent, but real wages are down because of inflation.
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Aerospace. performing or achieved within expected, acceptable limits; normal and satisfactory: The mission was nominal throughout.
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COLLAPSESlang. done smoothly as expected: The space shot was nominal, proceeding without a hitch.
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Grammar. a word or group of words functioning as a noun.
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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- If you do the math with the phyisics, that doesnt account for much and is extremely nominal.
- To this journal he became a contributor, and later was for a time its nominal editor.
- Wheat prices are hitting nominal records.
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nominal
c.1430, "pertaining to nouns," from L. nominalis "pertaining to a name or names," from nomen (gen. nominis) "name," cognate with O.E. nama (see name). Meaning "of the nature of names" (in distinction to things) is from 1620. Meaning "being so in name only" first recorded 1624.
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