Nominal - Definition

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]