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say it: NAH-muh-nuhl
nominal is an adjective and noun meaning "relating to or constituting or bearing or giving a name". It carries 7 recorded senses.
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”
pertaining to a noun or to a word group that functions as a noun
“nominal phrase”
“noun phrase”
grammar
of, relating to, or characteristic of an amount that is not adjusted for inflation
“the nominal GDP”
“nominal interest rates”
economics
named; bearing the name of a specific person
“nominative shares of stock”
a phrase that can function as the subject or object of a verb
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for nominal come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.