Nominal

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Nominal may refer to:

• Nominal (linguistics), one of the parts of speech
• Noun phrase or nominal phrase
• the adjectival form of "noun", as in "nominal agreement" (= "noun agreement")

In engineering, "nominal" is used to describe a measurement (or group of measurements) that matches the predicted value(s) within the expected margin of error.

See also

• 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 shared, arbitrary characteristic
• Nominal damages, a small award to compensate for technical harm
• Nominal data, a form of categorical data in statistics
• Nominal GDP, a raw gross domestic product value uncompensated for inflation or deflation
• Nominal group (disambiguation)
• Nominal number, a number used as an identifier in mathematics
• Nominal sentence, a sentence without a finite verb
• Nominal techniques, in computer science for working with formal languages with name binding constructs
• 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
• 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