The difference between Nominal and Real

When used as nouns, nominal means a noun or word group that functions as part of a noun phrase, whereas real means a commodity.

When used as adjectives, nominal means of, resembling, relating to, or consisting of a name or names, whereas real means true, genuine, not merely nominal or apparent.

Real is also adverb with the meaning: really, very.

check bellow for the other definitions of Nominal and Real

  1. Nominal as an adjective:

    Of, resembling, relating to, or consisting of a name or names.

  2. Nominal as an adjective:

    Assigned to or bearing a person's name.

  3. Nominal as an adjective:

    Existing in name only.

    Examples:

    "a nominal difference"

  4. Nominal as an adjective (philosophy):

    Of or relating to nominalism.

  5. Nominal as an adjective:

    Insignificantly small; trifling.

    Examples:

    "He gave me only a nominal sum for my services."

  6. Nominal as an adjective:

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

    Examples:

    "The nominal voltage is 1.5 V, but the actual figure is usually higher."

  7. Nominal as an adjective (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.

  8. Nominal as an adjective (finance):

    Of, relating to, or being the rate of interest or return without adjustment for compounding or inflation.

  9. Nominal as an adjective (grammar):

    Of or relating to a noun or word group that functions as a noun.

    Examples:

    "This sentence contains a nominal phrase."

  10. Nominal as an adjective (engineering):

    According to plan or design; normal.

    Examples:

    "We'll just do a nominal flight check."

    "Apart from the slightly high temperature, all the readings from the spacecraft are nominal."

  11. Nominal as an adjective (economics):

    Without adjustment to remove the effects of inflation; contrasted with real.

    Examples:

    "My employer does not understand how low my nominal wage is."

    "The nominal GNP of this country is pretty low."

  12. Nominal as an adjective (statistics, of a variable):

    Having values whose order is insignificant.

  1. Nominal as a noun (grammar):

    A noun or word group that functions as part of a noun phrase.

    Examples:

    "This sentence contains two nominals."

  2. Nominal as a noun (grammar):

    A part of speech that shares features with nouns and adjectives.

  3. Nominal as a noun:

    A number (usually natural) used like a name; a numeric code or identifier (see also wikipedia).

    Examples:

    "Numeric codes of characters used in programming are nominals."

  1. Real as an adjective:

    True, genuine, not merely nominal or apparent.

  2. Real as an adjective:

    Genuine, not artificial, counterfeit, or fake.

    Examples:

    "This is real leather."

  3. Real as an adjective:

    Genuine, unfeigned, sincere.

    Examples:

    "These are real tears!"

  4. Real as an adjective:

    Actually being, existing, or occurring; not fictitious or imaginary.

    Examples:

    "a description of real life"

  5. Real as an adjective:

    That has objective, physical existence.

    Examples:

    "No one has ever seen a real unicorn."

  6. Real as an adjective (economics):

    Having been adjusted to remove the effects of inflation; measured in purchasing power .

    Examples:

    "My dad calculated my family's real consumption per month."

    "What is the real GNP of this polity?"

  7. Real as an adjective (economics):

    Relating to the result of the actions of rational agents; relating to neoclassical economic models as opposed to Keynesian models.

  8. Real as an adjective (mathematics, of a number):

    Being either a rational number, or the limit of a convergent infinite sequence of rational numbers: being one of a set of numbers with a one-to-one correspondence to the points on a line.

  9. Real as an adjective (legal):

    Relating to immovable tangible property.

    Examples:

    "[[real estate]]; [[real property]]"

  10. Real as an adjective:

    Absolute, complete, utter.

    Examples:

    "This is a real problem."

  11. Real as an adjective (slang):

    Examples:

    "I'm keeping it real."

  1. Real as an adverb (US, colloquial):

    Really, very.

  1. Real as a noun:

    A commodity; see realty.

  2. Real as a noun (grammar):

    One of the three genders that the common gender can be separated into in the Scandinavian languages.

  3. Real as a noun (mathematics):

    A real number.

  4. Real as a noun (obsolete):

    A realist.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Burton"

  1. Real as a noun:

    Former unit of currency of Spain and Spain's colonies.

  2. Real as a noun:

    A coin worth one real.

  1. Real as a noun:

    A unit of currency used in Portugal and its colonies from 1430 until 1911, and in Brazil from 1790 until 1942.

  2. Real as a noun:

    A coin worth one real.

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