Nominal

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Nominal may refer to:

Linguistics and grammar

  • Nominal (linguistics), one of the parts of speech
  • Nominal, the adjectival form of "noun", as in "nominal agreement" (= "noun agreement")
  • Nominal sentence, a sentence without a finite verb
  • Noun phrase or nominal phrase

Mathematics

  • Nominal data, a form of categorical data in statistics
  • Nominal number, a number used as an identifier in mathematics

Titles

  • Post-nominal letters, letters indicating a title, placed after the name of a person
  • Pre-nominal letters, letters indicating a title, placed before the name of a person

Other uses

  • Nominal aphasia or anomic aphasia, a problem remembering words and names
  • Nominal category, a group of objects or ideas that can be collectively grouped on the basis of one or more shared, arbitrary characteristics
  • Nominal damages, a small award to compensate for technical harm
  • Nominal GDP, 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, an accepted condition which is a goal or an approximation as opposed to the real value
    • Real versus nominal value (economics), the face value of currency not corrected for inflation or compound interest
  • 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

  • Nominal group (disambiguation)
  • All pages with titles containing Nominal
  • Nominalism
  • Nominalization
  • Titular (disambiguation)
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