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Meaning of nominal

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  nominal
      adj 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 (`tokenish' is
         informal); "the fee was nominal"; "a token gesture of
         resistance"; "a toknenish gesture" [syn: {nominal},
         {token(a)}, {tokenish}]
      3: pertaining to a noun or to a word group that functions as a
         noun; "nominal phrase"; "noun phrase"
      4: of, relating to, or characteristic of an amount that is not
         adjusted for inflation; "the nominal GDP"; "nominal interest
         rates" [ant: {real}]
      5: named; bearing the name of a specific person; "nominative
         shares of stock" [syn: {nominative}, {nominal}]
      6: existing in name only; "the nominal (or titular) head of his
         party" [syn: {nominal}, {titular}]
      n 1: a phrase that can function as the subject or object of a
           verb [syn: {noun phrase}, {nominal phrase}, {nominal}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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