Nominal may refer to:

Linguistics and grammar

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 morphological ...

, one of the parts of speech * Nominal, the adjectival form of "

noun A noun () is a word that generally functions as the name of a specific object or set of objects, such as living creatures, places, actions, qualities, states of existence, or ideas.Example nouns for: * Living creatures (including people, alive, d ...

", as in "nominal agreement" (= "noun agreement") *

Nominal sentence Nominal sentence (also known as equational sentence) is a linguistic term that refers to a nonverbal sentence (i.e. a sentence without a finite verb). As a nominal sentence does not have a verbal predicate, it may contain a nominal predicate, an a ...

, a sentence without a finite verb *

Noun phrase In linguistics, a noun phrase, or nominal (phrase), is a phrase that has a noun or pronoun as its head or performs the same grammatical function as a noun. Noun phrases are very common cross-linguistically, and they may be the most frequently oc ...

or nominal phrase

Mathematics

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 scal ...

, a form of categorical data in statistics *

Nominal number Nominal numbers are numerals used as labels to 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 measurement. Labelling r ...

, a number used as an identifier in mathematics

Titles

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, academic degree, accreditation, ...

, letters indicating a title, placed after the name of a person *

Pre-nominal letters Pre-nominal letters are a title which is placed ''before'' the name of a person as distinct from a post-nominal title which is placed ''after'' the name. Examples of pre-nominal titles, for instance professional titles include: Doctor, Captain, ...

, letters indicating a title, placed before the name of a person

Other uses

Nominal aphasia Anomic aphasia (also known as dysnomia, nominal aphasia, and amnesic aphasia) is a mild, fluent type of aphasia where individuals have word retrieval failures and cannot express the words they want to say (particularly nouns and verbs). By contra ...

or anomic aphasia, a problem remembering words and names *

Nominal category A nominal category or a nominal group is a group of objects or ideas that can be collectively grouped on the basis of a particular characteristic—a qualitative property.. A variable that codes whether each one in a set of observations is in a par ...

, a group of objects or ideas that can be collectively grouped on the basis of one or more shared, arbitrary characteristics *

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 recognised at ...

, a small award to compensate for technical harm *

Nominal GDP Gross domestic product (GDP) is a money, monetary Measurement in economics, measure of the market value of all the final goods and services produced and sold (not resold) in a specific time period by countries. Due to its complex and subjec ...

, a raw gross domestic product value uncompensated for inflation or deflation * Nominal techniques, computer science techniques for working with formal languages with name binding constructs *

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 **

Real versus nominal value (economics) In economics, nominal value is measured in terms of money, whereas real value is measured against goods or services. A real value is one which has been adjusted for inflation, enabling comparison of quantities as if the prices of goods had not c ...

, the face value of currency not corrected for inflation or compound interest *

Nominal type system In computer science, a type system is a nominal or nominative type system (or name-based type system) if compatibility and equivalence of data types is determined by explicit declarations and/or the name of the types. Nominal systems are used to de ...

, a type system where properties of a data type are determined by explicit declaration and/or the name of a type

Linguistics and grammar

Mathematics

Titles

Other uses

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