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Notional vs Erratic - What's the difference?

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Notional is a related term of erratic.


As adjectives the difference between notional and erratic

is that notional is of, containing, or being a notion; mental or imaginary while erratic is unsteady, random; prone to unexpected changes; not consistent.

As a noun erratic is

(geology) a rock moved from one location to another, usually by a glacier.

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

    erratic

    English

    Alternative forms

    * erratick, erraticke, erratique (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • unsteady, random; prone to unexpected changes; not consistent
    • Henry has been getting erratic scores on his tests: 40% last week, but 98% this week.
  • Deviating from the common course in opinion or conduct; eccentric; odd.
    • erratic conduct

    Derived terms

    * erratically

    Antonyms

    * consistent

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (geology) A rock moved from one location to another, usually by a glacier.
  • * 2003 , (Bill Bryson), A Short History of Nearly Everything , BCA 2003, p. 372:
    • The term for a displaced boulder is an erratic , but in the nineteenth century the expression seemed to apply more often to the theories than to the rocks.
  • Anything that has erratic characteristics.

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