nominal

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  1. adjective Of, resembling, relating to, or consisting of a name or names.
  2. adjective Assigned to or bearing a person's name: nominal shares.
  3. adjective Existing in name only.
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  • Even the real essences of individual substances imply potential sorts It is true, I have often mentioned a REAL ESSENCE, distinct in substances from those abstract ideas of them, which I call their nominal essence. —  An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 2 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 3 and 4
  • This Cneius had a son, named Domitius, who was afterwards well known as the nominal purchaser of the family property left by Augustus's will [559]; and no less famous in his youth for his dexterity in chariot-driving, than he was afterwards for the triumphal ornaments which he obtained in the German war. —  De vita Caesarum
  • Slide 16, Huge Growth in Derivative mentions that their nominal is a breath taking —  Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
  • Anderson said an increase would be "nominal" - less than one percent of the district's overall budget. —  seMissourian.com Headlines
  • Real Dems and libs won't want anything to do with "former" as well as other-nominal or actual Republicans. —  The Moderate Voice
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  1. Middle English nominalle, of nouns, from Latin nōminālis, of names, from nōmen, nōmin-, name; see nŏ̄-men- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French nominal = Spanish Portuguese nominal = Italian nominate, from Latin nominalis, pertaining to a name or to names, from nomen, a name: see nomen, name.
 

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