Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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Nominal (Page: 979)

Nom"i*nal (?), a. [L. nominalis, fr. nomen, nominis, name. See Name.]

1. Of or pertaining to a name or names; having to do with the literal meaning of a word; verbal; as, a nominal definition. Bp. Pearson.

2. Existing in name only; not real; as, a nominal difference. Nominal attendance on lectures." Macaulay.

Nominal (Page: 979)

Nom"i*nal, n.

1. A nominalist. [Obs.] Camden.

2. (Gram.) A verb formed from a noun.

3. A name; an appellation.

A is the nominal of the sixth note in the natural diatonic scale. Moore (Encyc. of Music. )