minimal vs nominal
Definitions
adjective
- the least possible
Examples
Of course, Whitty himself ain’t exactly a peach; he loves him some torture, and buries knives in bellies with minimal provocation; when it comes to witch-hunting, he’s of the “burn her alive now, ask questions … well, don’t really bother asking questions, it’s just so damn fun to burn people, let’s do it some more!” school.
In present-day usage, despite Fowler's strictures, concern for classical and linguistic purity is minimal and the coining of etymological hybrids is casual and massive.
Efforts by tobacco companies to stop confectioners selling candy cigarettes in packs resembling cigarette brands seem to have been minimal.
Definitions
adjective
- named; bearing the name of a specific person
- relating to or constituting or bearing or giving a name
- existing in name only
- insignificantly small; a matter of form only (`tokenish' is informal)
- of, relating to, or characteristic of an amount that is not adjusted for inflation
noun
- a phrase that can function as the subject or object of a verb
Examples
Received telemetry data confirmed the initial phases of the mission to be nominal.
Thin capitalisation - offshore jurisdictions tend not to impose \ "thin capitalisation\" rules on companies (except for regulated entities such as banks and insurance companies), allowing them to be formed with a purely nominal equity investment.
The late S.M. Shukla, an authority on numismatics from Mumbai, gave him a big part of his collection for a nominal payment.
