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Notional vs Notational - What's the difference?

notional | notational |

As adjectives the difference between notional and notational

is that notional is of, containing, or being a notion; mental or imaginary while notational is of or pertaining to notation.

notional

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of, containing, or being a notion; mental or imaginary.
  • Speculative, theoretical, not the result of research.
  • This paper proposes a notional Federated Identity Management (FIM) architecture.
  • (linguistics) Having descriptive value as opposed to a syntactic category.
  • (finance) (Used to indicate an estimate or a reference amount)
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  • Derived terms

    * notionality * notionally

    notational

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to notation
  • Derived terms

    * notationality * notationally