All 3 Uses of
nominal
in
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- ...there is now another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a salary of £4 a week for purely nominal services.
Chpt 2 *nominal = insignificantly small
- Is purely nominal.
Chpt 2
- What do you call purely nominal?
Chpt 2
Definitions:
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(1)
(nominal as in: a nominal fee) insignificantly small
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(2)
(nominal as in: he's nominally in charge) in form or name, but not in reality
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(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Less commonly, in grammar, nominal means "pertaining to a noun or to a word group that functions as a noun". Even less commonly and typically in the context of space travel, nominal can mean that things are operating in a normal or expected manner--as when Andy Weir wrote "All stats nominal," in his book, The Martian.