different between nominal vs apparent

English

Etymology

From the Middle English nominalle (“of nouns”), borrowed from Latin n?min?lis (“of names”), from n?men (“name”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?n?m.?nl?/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /?n?m.?nl?/

Adjective

nominal (not comparable)

1. Of, resembling, relating to, or consisting of a name or names.
2. Assigned to or bearing a person's name.
3. Existing in name only.
   • 1856 February, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Oliver Goldsmith, republished in 1865, The Miscellaneous Writings of Lord Macaulay, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts and Green, page 300,

     At Edinburgh he passed eighteen months in nominal attendance on lectures, and picked up some superficial information about chemistry and natural history.
4. (philosophy) Of or relating to nominalism.
6. Insignificantly small.

   Synonym: trifling

7. Of or relating to the presumed or approximate value, rather than the actual value.

8. (finance) Of, relating to, or being the amount or face value of a sum of money or a stock certificate, for example, and not the purchasing power or market value.
9. (finance) Of, relating to, or being the rate of interest or return without adjustment for compounding or inflation.
10. (grammar) Of or relating to a noun or word group that functions as a noun.

11. (engineering) According to plan or design.

    Synonym: normal
12. (economics) Without adjustment to remove the effects of inflation.

    Antonym: real

    • 1991, Richard J. Gilbert, Regulatory Choices: A Perspective on Developments in Energy Policy, page 267,

      Comparisons of the costs of the Diablo Canyon plant with other nuclear power plants can be misleading because the available cost data are in nominal dollars and therefore include the toll of inflation over the construction periods.

    • 2001, Erich A. Helfert, Financial Analysis: Tools and Techniques: A Guide for Managers, page 467,

      This simple process allows us to convert nominal dollars into inflation-adjusted real dollars.

13. (statistics, of a variable) Having values whose order is insignificant.
14. (taxonomy) Of a species, the species name without consideration of whether it is a junior synonym or in reality consists of more than one biological species.

Derived terms

• binominal
• denominal
• nominalness
• nominally
• polynominal

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Afrikaans: nominaal

Translations

Noun

nominal (plural nominals)

2. (grammar) A noun or word group that functions as part of a noun phrase.

   This sentence contains two nominals.

4. (grammar) A part of speech that shares features with nouns and adjectives. (Depending on the language, it may comprise nouns, adjectives, possibly numerals, pronouns, and participles.)
6. A number (usually natural) used like a name; a numeric code or identifier. (See nominal number on Wikipedia.)

   Numeric codes of characters used in programming are nominals.

8. (Britain, police jargon) A person listed in the Police National Computer database as having been convicted, cautioned or recently arrested.

Hyponyms

• (grammar) noun, pronoun

Translations

Further reading

• nominal in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• nominal in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• nonmail

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin nominalis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /no.mi?nal/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /nu.mi?nal/

Adjective

nominal (masculine and feminine plural nominals)

1. nominal

Derived terms

• nominalment

Related terms

• nom

Further reading

• “nominal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “nominal” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “nominal” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “nominal” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin nominalis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?.mi.nal/

Adjective

nominal (feminine singular nominale, masculine plural nominaux, feminine plural nominales)

1. nominal

Noun

nominal m (plural nominaux)

1. nominal

Related terms

• nom
• classe nominale
• locution nominale
• valeur nominale

Descendants

• ? Dutch: nominaal
  • ? Indonesian: nominal
  • ? West Frisian: nominaal
• ? Romanian: nominal

Further reading

• “nominal” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin nominalis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nomi?na?l/
• Rhymes: -a?l

Adjective

nominal (not comparable)

1. nominal

Declension

Derived terms

• Nominaldeklination
• Nominalflexion
• Nominalklammer
• Nominalphrase

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch nominaal, from French nominal, from Latin nominalis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [no?minal]
• Hyphenation: no?mi?nal

Adjective

nominal

1. nominal,
   1. existing in name only.
   2. insignificantly small.
   3. (grammar) of or relating to a noun or word group that functions as a noun.

Further reading

• “nominal” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin nominalis.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /nomi?naw/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /numi?na?/
• Hyphenation: no?mi?nal

Adjective

nominal m or f (plural nominais, comparable)

1. nominal

Derived terms

• nominalmente

Related terms

• nome

Further reading

• “nominal” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French nominal, Latin nominalis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nomi?nal/

Adjective

nominal m or n (feminine singular nominal?, masculine plural nominali, feminine and neuter plural nominale)

1. nominal

Declension

Related terms

• nume
• nominalism
• nominaliza

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin nominalis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nomi?nal/, [no.mi?nal]
• Hyphenation: no?mi?nal

Adjective

nominal (plural nominales)

1. nominal

Derived terms

• sintagma nominal
• valor nominal

Related terms

• nombre

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French apparent, Old French aparant, in turn from Latin apparens ?-entis, present participle of appareo.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??pæ.??nt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??pæ.??nt/, /??p?.??nt/

Adjective

apparent (comparative more apparent, superlative most apparent)

1. Capable of being seen, or easily seen; open to view; visible to the eye, eyely; within sight or view.
   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book IV,

     […] Hesperus, that led / The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, / Rising in clouded majesty, at length / Apparent queen unveiled her peerless light, / And o’er the dark her silver mantle threw.

2. Clear or manifest to the understanding; plain; evident; obvious; known; palpable; indubitable.
   • c. 1595–6, William Shakespeare, The Life and Death of King John, Act IV, Scene 2,

     Salisbury: It is apparent foul-play; and ’tis shame / That greatness should so grossly offer it: / So thrive it in your game! and so, farewell.

   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula Chapter 20

     When I came to Renfield's room I found him lying on the floor on his left side in a glittering pool of blood. When I went to move him, it became at once apparent that he had received some terrible injuries.

3. Appearing to the eye or mind (distinguished from, but not necessarily opposed to, true or real); seeming.
   • 1785, Thomas Reid, Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man, Essay II (“Of the Powers we have by means of our External Senses”), Chapter XIX (“Of Matter and of Space”),

     What George Berkeley calls visible magnitude was by astronomers called apparent magnitude.

   • 1848, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second,

     To live on terms of civility, and even of apparent friendship.

   • 1911, Encyclopædia Britannica, “Aberration”,

     This apparent motion is due to the finite velocity of light, and the progressive motion of the observer with the earth, as it performs its yearly course about the sun.

Usage notes

• The word apparent has two common uses that are almost in opposition. One means roughly “clear; clearly true”, and serves to make a statement more decisive:

  It was apparent that no one knew the answer. (=No one knew the answer, and it showed.)

• The other is roughly “seeming; to all appearances”, and serves to make a statement less decisive:

  The apparent source of the hubbub was a stray kitten. (=There was a stray kitten, and it seemed to be the source of the hubbub.)

• The same ambivalence occurs with the derived adverb apparently, which usually means “seemingly” but can also mean “clearly”, especially when it is modified by another adverb, such as quite.

Synonyms

• (easy to see): visible, conspicuous, distinct, plain, obvious, clear
• (easy to understand): distinct, plain, obvious, clear, certain, evident, manifest, indubitable, notorious, transparent
• (seeming to be the case): illusory, superficial

Antonyms

• (within sight or view): hidden, invisible
• (clear to the understanding): ambiguous, obscure

Derived terms

• apparency
• apparent horizon
• apparent time
• apparently
• apparentness
• heir apparent

Related terms

• apparition
• appear
• appearance

Translations

References

• apparent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• trappean

French

Etymology

From Old French aparent, aparant, borrowed from Latin apparens, apparentem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.pa.???/

Adjective

apparent (feminine singular apparente, masculine plural apparents, feminine plural apparentes)

1. apparent (all senses)

Derived terms

• héritier apparent

Related terms

• apparemment
• apparence
• apparaître
• apparoir

Further reading

• “apparent” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Verb

apparent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of app?re?
2. third-person plural present active subjunctive of appar?