Nominal may refer to:
Linguistics and grammar
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Nominal (linguistics)
In linguistics, the term ''nominal'' refers to a category used to group together nouns and adjectives based on shared properties. The motivation for nominal grouping is that in many languages nouns and adjectives share a number of Morphology (lin ...
, one of the parts of speech
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noun
In grammar, a noun is a word that represents a concrete or abstract thing, like living creatures, places, actions, qualities, states of existence, and ideas. A noun may serve as an Object (grammar), object or Subject (grammar), subject within a p ...
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Nominal sentence
In linguistics, a nominal sentence (also known as equational sentence) is a sentence without a finite verb. As a nominal sentence does not have a verbal Predicate (grammar), predicate, it may contain a noun, nominal predicate, an adjective, adje ...
, a sentence without a finite verb
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Noun phrase
A noun phrase – or NP or nominal (phrase) – is a phrase that usually has a noun or pronoun as its head, and has the same grammatical functions as a noun. Noun phrases are very common cross-linguistically, and they may be the most frequently ...
or nominal phrase
Mathematics
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Nominal data
Level of measurement or scale of measure is a classification that describes the nature of information within the values assigned to variables. Psychologist Stanley Smith Stevens developed the best-known classification with four levels, or scale ...
, a form of categorical data in statistics
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Nominal number
Nominal numbers are numerals used as labels to Unique identifier, identify items uniquely. Importantly, the actual values of the numbers which these numerals represent are less relevant, as they do not indicate quantity, rank, or any other measur ...
, a number used as an identifier in mathematics
Titles
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Post-nominal letters
Post-nominal letters, also called post-nominal initials, post-nominal titles, designatory letters, or simply post-nominals, are letters placed after a person's name to indicate that the individual holds a position, an academic degree, accreditation ...
, letters indicating a title, placed after the name of a person
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Pre-nominal letters, letters indicating a title, placed before the name of a person
Other uses
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Nominal aphasia or anomic aphasia, a problem remembering words and names
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Nominal category, a group of objects or ideas that can be collectively grouped on the basis of one or more shared, arbitrary characteristics
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Nominal damages
At common law, damages are a remedy in the form of a monetary award to be paid to a claimant as compensation for loss or injury. To warrant the award, the claimant must show that a breach of duty has caused foreseeable loss. To be recognized at ...
, a small award to compensate for technical harm
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Nominal GDP
Gross domestic product (GDP) is a monetary measure of the total market value of all the final goods and services produced and rendered in a specific time period by a country or countries. GDP is often used to measure the economic performance ...
, a raw gross domestic product value uncompensated for inflation or deflation
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Nominal techniques, computer science techniques for working with formal languages with name binding constructs
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Real versus nominal value
The distinction between real value and nominal value occurs in many fields. From a philosophical viewpoint, nominal value represents an accepted condition, which is a goal or an approximation, as opposed to the real value, which is always present. ...
, an accepted condition which is a goal or an approximation as opposed to the real value
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Real versus nominal value (economics)
In economics, nominal value refers to value measured in terms of absolute money amounts, whereas real value is considered and measured against the actual goods or services for which it can be exchanged at a given time. Real value takes into ac ...
, the face value of currency not corrected for inflation or compound interest
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Nominal type system, a type system where properties of a data type are determined by explicit declaration and/or the name of a type
See also
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Nominal group (disambiguation)
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Nominalism
In metaphysics, nominalism is the view that universals and abstract objects do not actually exist other than being merely names or labels. There are two main versions of nominalism. One denies the existence of universals—that which can be inst ...
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Nominalization
In linguistics, nominalization or nominalisation, also known as nouning, is the use of a word that is not a noun (e.g., a verb, an adjective or an adverb) as a noun, or as the head (linguistics), head of a noun phrase. This change in functional c ...
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Titular (disambiguation)
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