Nominal may refer to:
Linguistics and grammar
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Nominal (linguistics), one of the parts of speech
* Nominal, the adjectival form of "
noun", as in "nominal agreement" (= "noun agreement")
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Nominal sentence, a sentence without a finite verb
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Noun phrase or nominal phrase
Mathematics
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Nominal data, a form of categorical data in statistics
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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
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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, academic degree, accreditation, ...
, letters indicating a title, placed after the name of a person
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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, E ...
, 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, a small award to compensate for technical harm
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Nominal GDP, a raw gross domestic product value uncompensated for inflation or deflation
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Nominal techniques
Nominal techniques in computer science are a range of techniques, based on nominal sets, for handling names and binding, e.g. in abstract syntax. Research into nominal sets gave rise to nominal terms, a metalanguage for embedding object languages ...
, computer science techniques for working with formal languages with name binding constructs
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Real versus nominal value, 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 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
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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
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Nominalization
In linguistics, nominalization or nominalisation 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 of a noun phrase. This change in functional category can occur through morphological tr ...
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Titular (disambiguation)
Titular may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
* Title character in a narrative work, the character referred to in its title
Religion
* Titular (Catholicism), a cardinal who holds a titulus, one of the main churches of Rome
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