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Meaning of notional

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

  notional
      adj 1: not based on fact; unreal; "the falsehood about some
             fanciful secret treaties"- F.D.Roosevelt; "a small
             child's imaginary friends"; "to create a notional world
             for oneself" [syn: {fanciful}, {imaginary}, {notional}]
      2: not based on fact or investigation; "a notional figure of
         cost helps in determining production costs"; "speculative
         knowledge" [syn: {notional}, {speculative}]
      3: indulging in or influenced by fancy; "a fanciful mind"; "all
         the notional vagaries of childhood" [syn: {fanciful},
         {notional}]
      4: being of the nature of a notion or concept; "a plan abstract
         and conceptional"; "to improve notional comprehension"; "a
         notional response to the question" [syn: {conceptional},
         {ideational}, {notional}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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