A Quick and Simple Dictionary

nominal

1. Adjective.  Of, resembling, relating to, or consisting of a name or names.
2. Adjective.  Assigned to or bearing a person's name.
3. Adjective.  Existing in name only.
4. Adjective.  (philosophy) Of or relating to nominalism.
5. Adjective.  Insignificantly small; trifling.
6. Adjective.  Of or relating to the presumed or approximate value, rather than the actual value.
7. Adjective.  (context, finance) Of, relating to, or being the amount or face value of a sum of money or a stock certificate, for example, and not the purchasing power or market value.
8. Adjective.  (context, finance) Of, relating to, or being the rate of interest or return without adjustment for compounding or inflation.
9. Adjective.  (grammar) Of or relating to a noun or word group that functions as a noun.
10. Adjective.  (context, engineering) According to plan or design; normal.
11. Adjective.  (economics) Without adjustment to remove the effects of inflation; ''contrasted with'' real.
12. Adjective.  (statistics, of a variable) Having values whose order is insignificant.
13. Noun.  (grammar) A noun or word group that functions as a noun phrase.
14. Noun.  (grammar) A part of speech that shares features with nouns and adjectives.