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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Nominal \Nom"i*nal\, adjective [L. nominalis, fr. nomen, nominis, name. See {Name}.]
1. Of or pertaining to a name or names; having to do with the literal meaning of a word; verbal; as, a nominal definition. --Bp. Pearson.
2. Existing in name only; not real; as, a nominal difference. ''Nominal attendance on lectures.'' --Macaulay.
4. Hence: Insignificant; trifling; -- of prices or costs, as compared with the benefits gained; as, to pay a nominal sum for the data; a nominal fee. [PJC]
3. Within acceptable limits; as expected; as, the hydraulic lines are at nominal pressure; -- used mostly in aviation and space operations. [PJC]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Nominal \Nom"i*nal\, noun
1. A nominalist. [Obs.] --Camden.
2. (Gram.) A verb formed from a noun.
3. A name; an appellation.
A is the nominal of the sixth note in the natural diatonic scale. --Moore (Encyc. of Music. )
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
nominal
adjective
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 tokenish gesture" [syn: {token(a)}, {tokenish}]
3: pertaining to a noun or to a word group that functions as a noun; "nominal phrase"; "noun phrase"
4: being value in terms of specification on currency or stock certificates rather than purchasing power; "nominal or face value" [ant: {real}]
5: named; bearing the name of a specific person; "nominative shares of stock" [syn: {nominative}]
6: being such in name only; "the nominal (or titular) head of his party" [syn: {titular}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
92 Moby Thesaurus words for "nominal": abstract noun, adherent noun, adjectival, adverbial, alleged, apparent, attributive, budget, byname, cheap, cognominal, collective noun, common noun, conjunctive, copulative, correct, diminutive, easy, economic, economy, epithetic, formal, frugal, functional, gerund, glossematic, grammatic, honorific, hypocoristic, hypostasis, in name only, inconsiderable, inexpensive, insignificant, insubstantial, intransitive, linking, low, low-priced, manageable, minimal, minor, minuscule, moderate, modest, nominative, noun, noun phrase, ostensible, participial, postpositional, prepositional, pretended, professed, pronominal, pronoun, proper noun, proposed, propositional, puppet, purported, quasi, quotation noun, reasonable, representational, seeming, self-called, self-christened, self-styled, sensible, shabby, shoddy, small, so-called, soi-disant, structural, substantive, supposed, supposititious, syntactic, tagmemic, tiny, titular, token, transitive, trifling, trivial, unexpensive, verbal, within means, worth the money, would-be
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