Adjective

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Of, resembling, relating to, or consisting of a name or names.

Assigned to or bearing a person's name.

Existing in name only.

a nominal difference

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Nominal attendance on lectures.

(philosophy) Of or relating to nominalism.

(senseid) Insignificantly small; trifling.

He gave me only a nominal sum for my services.

Of or relating to the presumed or approximate value, rather than the actual value.

The nominal voltage is 1.5 V, but the actual figure is usually higher.

(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.

(finance) Of, relating to, or being the rate of interest or return without adjustment for compounding or inflation.

(grammar) Of or relating to a noun or word group that functions as a noun.

This sentence contains a nominal phrase.

(engineering) According to plan or design; normal.

We'll just do a nominal flight check.

Apart from the slightly high temperature, all the readings from the spacecraft are nominal .

(economics) Without adjustment to remove the effects of inflation; contrasted with real.

My employer does not understand how low my nominal wage is.

The nominal GNP of this country is pretty low.

* 1991 , Richard J. Gilbert, Regulatory Choices: A Perspective on Developments in Energy Policy , page 267,

Comparisons of the costs of the Diablo Canyon plant with other nuclear power plants can be misleading because the available cost data are in nominal dollars and therefore include the toll of inflation over the construction periods.

* 2001 , Erich A. Helfert, Financial Analysis: Tools and Techniques: A Guide for Managers , page 467,

This simple process allows us to convert nominal dollars into inflation-adjusted real dollars.

(statistics, of a variable) Having values whose order is insignificant.

Adjective

(en adjective)

(Christianity) Bound by religious rule; belonging to a monastic or religious order (often as opposed to (secular)).

* 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, page 201:

A quarter of a million strong in 1680, the clergy was only half as large in 1789. The unpopular regular clergy were the worst affected.

Having a constant pattern; showing evenness of form or appearance.

(geometry, of a polygon) Having all sides of the same length, and all (corresponding) angles of the same size

(geometry, of a polyhedron) Whose faces are all congruent regular polygons, equally inclined to each other.

Demonstrating a consistent set of rules; showing order, evenness of operation or occurrence.

* 2011 , (AL Kennedy), The Guardian , 12 Apr 2011:

April may be the cruellest month, but I am planning to render it civilised and to take my antibiotics in a regular manner.

(now, rare) Well-behaved, orderly; restrained (of a lifestyle etc.).

Happening at constant (especially short) intervals.

(chiefly, US) Having the expected characteristics or appearances; normal, ordinary, standard.

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(chiefly, military) Permanently organised; being part of a set professional body of troops.

Having bowel movements or menstrual periods at constant intervals in the expected way.

(colloquial) Exemplary; excellent example of; utter, downright.

Belonging to a monastic order or community.

regular clergy, in distinction from the secular clergy

(botany, zoology) Having all the parts of the same kind alike in size and shape.

a regular''' flower; a '''regular sea urchin

(crystallography) isometric

(snowboarding) Riding with the left foot forward. BBC Sport, "Sochi 2014: A jargon-busting guide to the halfpipe", 11 February 2014

(analysis, not comparable, of a Borel measure) Such that every set in its domain is both outer regular and inner regular.