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nominal

  • adjective
  • /ˈnɒm.ɪ.nl̩/

Of, resembling, relating to, or consisting of a name or names.

Other meanings

  1. Assigned to or bearing a person's name.

  2. Existing in name only.

    “a nominal difference”

Related words

  • adnominal
  • denominalization
  • misnominal
  • multinominal
  • nominalise
  • nominalization
  • nominalize
  • nondenominal
  • nonnominal
  • plurinominal
  • polynominal
  • postnominal

Word history

From Latin "nōmen" (name).

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “nominal” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.