How to pronounce “nominal”

Meaning

• [Adjective]
• 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, of a variable) 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.
• [Noun]
• (grammar) A noun or word group that functions as part of a noun phrase.
• (grammar) A part of speech that shares features with nouns and adjectives. (Depending on the language, it may comprise nouns, adjectives, possibly numerals, pronouns, and participles.)
• A number (usually natural) used like a name; a numeric code or identifier. (See nominal number on Wikipedia.)
• (UK, police jargon) A person listed in the Police National Computer database as having been convicted, cautioned or recently arrested.

Practice Nearby Words

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Similar Sounds

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