The meaning of the word notional

  • 1
    notional

    1) вообража́емый

    2)

    филос.

    умозри́тельный; отвлечённый; теорети́ческий

    3)

    лингв.

    зна́чимый, смыслово́й

    4) с причу́дами, стра́нный

    Англо-русский словарь Мюллера > notional

  • 2
    notional

    Англо-русский синонимический словарь > notional

  • 3
    notional

    [ˈnəuʃənl]

    notional воображаемый notional лингв. значимый, смысловой notional придирчивый notional филос. умозрительный; отвлеченный

    English-Russian short dictionary > notional

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    notional

    ˈnəuʃənl прил.
    1) а) филос. умозрительный;
    отвлеченный б) представляемый, воображаемый Syn: imaginary, fictitious
    2) придирчивый Syn: captious, overparticular
    3) линг. значимый, релевантный, несущий значение, смысловой
    a
    1) познаваемый, содержащий мысль;

    2) умозрительный, отвлечённый;

    3) воображаемый;

    4) грам. значимый, смысловой
    notional воображаемый ~ лингв. значимый, смысловой ~ придирчивый ~ филос. умозрительный;
    отвлеченный

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > notional

  • 5
    notional

    [ʹnəʋʃ(ə)nəl]

    1) умозрительный; отвлечённый

    2) понятийный

    2. воображаемый

    1) с богатой фантазией; капризный, причудливый

    2) придирчивый; (слишком) щепетильный

    5. номинальный; минимальный, символический

    НБАРС > notional

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    notional

    гипотетический «93RON» refers to a notional gasoline grade representing high octane grades«октановое число по исследовательскому методу 93» относится к гипотетической марке бензина, представляющей высокооктановые сорта бензина

    English-Russian dictionary of scientific and technical difficulties vocabulary > notional

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    notional

    1. a филос. умозрительный; отвлечённый

    2. a филос. понятийный

    3. a филос. воображаемый

    4. a преим. амер. с богатой фантазией; капризный, причудливый

    5. a преим. амер. придирчивый; щепетильный

    6. a преим. амер. лингв. значащий, понятийный

    7. a преим. амер. номинальный; минимальный, символический

    Синонимический ряд:

    1. fancied (adj.) conceptual; fancied; fanciful; fantastic; imaginary; imagined; shadowy; unreal

    2. ideal (adj.) abstract; conceiving; discernible; ideal; ideational; theoretical; visual; visualized

    3. moody (adj.) moody; temperamental

    English-Russian base dictionary > notional

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    notional

    Англо-русский технический словарь > notional

  • 9
    notional

    [‘nəʊʃ(ə)nəl]

    1) Общая лексика: воображаемый, знаменательный, значимый, капризный, отвлечённый, познаваемый, понятийный, придирчивый, причудливый, с богатой фантазией, содержащий мысль, щепетильный , условный

    4) Финансы: номинальный

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > notional

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    notional

    [`nəʊʃənl]

    умозрительный; отвлеченный

    представляемый, воображаемый

    придирчивый

    значимый, релевантный, несущий значение, смысловой

    Англо-русский большой универсальный переводческий словарь > notional

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    notional

    adjective

    1) philos. умозрительный; отвлеченный

    2) воображаемый

    3) придирчивый

    4) ling. значимый, смысловой

    * * *

    1 (0) с богатой фантазией

    2 (a) воображаемый; значащий; капризный; отвлеченный; понятийный; придирчивый; причудливый; умозрительный; щепетильный

    * * *

    умозрительный; отвлеченный

    * * *

    [‘no·tion·al || ‘nəʊʃnəl]
    умозрительный, отвлеченный, воображаемый; с причудами, странный, значимый, смысловой; познаваемый, теоретический

    * * *

    воображаемый

    мысленный

    отвлеченный

    придирчивый

    смысловой

    * * *

    1) а) филос. умозрительный
    б) представляемый
    2) придирчивый
    3) лингв. значимый, релевантный, несущий значение

    Новый англо-русский словарь > notional

  • 12
    Notional

    Англо-русский экономический словарь > Notional

  • 13
    notional

    понятийный; отвлеченный; воображаемый, нереальный

    Англо-русский словарь по психоаналитике > notional

  • 14
    notional

    English-Russian dictionary of technical terms > notional

  • 15
    notional

    значимый, смысловой

    English-Russian glossary of linguistics terms > notional

  • 16
    notional

    [‘nəuʃ(ə)n(ə)l]

    прил.

    1)

    филос.

    умозрительный; отвлечённый

    2) представляемый, воображаемый

    Syn:

    Syn:

    4)

    лингв.

    значимый, релевантный, несущий значение, смысловой

    Англо-русский современный словарь > notional

  • 17
    notional

    a филос.

    умозрительный; отвлечённый; понятийный

    English-russian dctionary of diplomacy > notional

  • 18
    notional

    воображаемый

    мысленный

    отвлеченный

    придирчивый

    смысловой

    English-Russian smart dictionary > notional

  • 19
    notional

    English-Russian scientific dictionary > notional

  • 20
    notional lane

    notional lane
    n

    Англо-русский строительный словарь. — М.: Русский Язык.
    .
    1995.

    Англо-русский словарь строительных терминов > notional lane

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  • notional — adjective Date: 1597 1. theoretical, speculative 2. existing in the mind only ; imaginary 3. given to foolish or fanciful moods or ideas 4. a. of, relating to, or being a notion or idea ; conceptual b. (1) …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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3

: given to foolish or fanciful moods or ideas

4

b(1)

: presenting an idea of a thing, action, or quality

has is notional in he has luck, relational in he has gone

(2)

: of or representing what exists or occurs in the world of things as distinguished from syntactic categories

Synonyms

Example Sentences



The notional earnings of the company were close to the actual ones.



she has a notional understanding of romantic love but no actual experience of being in love

Recent Examples on the Web

Mars remains far away, with only notional schedules and unfunded budgets.


—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 3 Apr. 2023




In the summer of 2021, Sittenfeld realized her notional screenplay should actually be a novel.


—Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2023




For years President Alexander Lukashenko succeeded in maintaining a degree of independence, and in particular to avoid outsourcing Belarus’s defense to its notional ally Russia — for instance, by fending off persistent Russian demands for an airbase there.


—Keir Giles, CNN, 30 Mar. 2023




Today, a stealthy aircraft design is recognized as a key part of what makes an aircraft a fifth-generation fighter jet, and notional sixth-generation designs from the United States, Japan, the U.K., and other countries make clear that stealth is here to stay.


—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 24 Mar. 2023




The violation of the norms, the notional rules.


—CBS News, 26 Oct. 2022




Consider a notional bank that has grown very fast in recent years, as did SVB.


—Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Mar. 2023




Twitter is a vital dataset for understanding how the internet works and what conversations are being had in the notional global public square.


—WIRED, 10 Mar. 2023




On January 31, 2023, the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) posted a video featuring CGI concept art of a notional sixth-generation stealth fighter.


—Sebastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 16 Feb. 2023


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First Known Use

1597, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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Definitions of notional

  1. adjective

    being of the nature of a notion or concept

    “to improve
    notional comprehension”

    “a
    notional response to the question”

    synonyms:

    conceptional, ideational

    abstract

    existing only in the mind; separated from embodiment

  2. adjective

    not based on fact or investigation

    “a
    notional figure of cost helps in determining production costs”

    synonyms:

    speculative

    theoretic, theoretical

    concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations

  3. adjective

    not based on fact; unreal

    “to create a
    notional world for oneself”

    synonyms:

    fanciful, imaginary

    unreal

    lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria

  4. adjective

    indulging in or influenced by fancy

    “all the
    notional vagaries of childhood”

    synonyms:

    fanciful, whimsical

    creative, originative

    having the ability or power to create

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  • Defenition of the word notional

    • being or of the nature of a notion or concept; «a plan abstract and conceptional»; «to improve notional comprehension»; «a notional response to the question»
    • not based on fact; dubious; «the falsehood about some fanciful secret treaties»- F.D.Roosevelt; «a small child’s imaginary friends»; «her imagined fame»; «to create a notional world for oneself»
    • indulging in or influenced by fancy; «a fanciful mind»; «all the notional vagaries of childhood»
    • (grammar) having descriptive value as distinguished from syntactic category; «sex is a notional category; gender is a syntactic one»
    • not based on fact or investigation; «a notional figure of cost helps in determining production costs»; «speculative knowledge»
    • being (or being of the nature of) a notion or concept; «a plan abstract and conceptional»; «to improve notional comprehension»; «a notional response to the question»
    • not based on fact; dubious; «the falsehood about some fanciful secret treaties»- F.D.Roosevelt; «a small child»s imaginary friends»; «her imagined fame»; «to create a notional world for oneself»
    • having descriptive value as distinguished from syntactic category; «sex is a notional category; gender is a syntactic one»
    • being of the nature of a notion or concept
    • indulging in or influenced by fancy
    • not based on fact or investigation
    • not based on fact; unreal

Synonyms for the word notional

    • academic
    • all in the mind
    • conceptional
    • estimated
    • fancied
    • fanciful
    • hypothetical
    • ideational
    • imaginary
    • imagined
    • nonexistent
    • speculative
    • theoretical
    • unreal

Similar words in the notional

    • abstract
    • creative
    • notional
    • notionally
    • originative
    • theoretic
    • theoretical
    • unreal

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[ noh-shuh-nl ]

/ ˈnoʊ ʃə nl /

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adjective

pertaining to or expressing a notion or idea.

of the nature of a notion or idea: a notional response to the question.

abstract, theoretical, or speculative, as reflective thought.

not real or actual; ideal or imaginary: to create a notional world for oneself.

given to or full of foolish or fanciful ideas or moods.

Grammar.

  1. relating to the meaning expressed by a linguistic form.
  2. having full lexical meaning, in contrast to relational.

Semantics. belonging to a class of words that express clear concepts rather than relations between concepts; presentive.Compare relational (def. 3), symbolic (def. 4).

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Origin of notional

First recorded in 1590–1600; notion + -al1

OTHER WORDS FROM notional

no·tion·al·i·ty, nounno·tion·al·ly, adverbnon·no·tion·al, adjectiveun·no·tion·al, adjective

un·no·tion·al·ly, adverb

Words nearby notional

no time at all, no time for, have, no time like the present, there’s, not in the least, notion, notional, notionate, notions, notitia, not know beans, not know enough to come in out of the rain

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Words related to notional

abstract, apocryphal, apparitional, assumed, chimeric, conceptual, deceptive, delusive, dreamlike, dreamy, fabulous, fancied, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, fictional, fool’s paradise, hallucinatory, hypothetical, ideal

How to use notional in a sentence

  • The app also allows them to set a budget, and automatically calculates the amount of fractional shares they can afford through notional value trading.

  • Panetta was no fan of Blair, whom he called his “notional boss” inside the intelligence community.

  • Once, in a moment of grace, I allowed myself to imagine a notional platform for such a party.

  • Yet that open border is no less real for seeming so purely notional.

  • The nation bleeds but we seem to have a president for whom emotion is notional.

  • Illiquidity was not a problem when notional prices went up in the boom years.

  • When the sense of God’s authority over us is practical, and not notional only.

  • When he’s sort of wild and notional by nature and traps set for him?

  • The cap’n was a first-rate seaman and died rich, but he was dreadful notional.

  • They wish to catch as many fish as they possibly can, while they are biting, for mackerel are very notional.

  • For it is slight compared to their notional assent, that which they think they believe concerning it.

British Dictionary definitions for notional

adjective

relating to, expressing, or consisting of notions or ideas

not evident in reality; hypothetical or imaginarya notional tax credit

characteristic of a notion or concept, esp in being speculative or imaginary; abstract

grammar

  1. (of a word) having lexical meaning
  2. another word for semantic

Derived forms of notional

notionally, adverb

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no·tion·al

 (nō′shə-nəl)

adj.

1. Of, containing, or being a notion; mental or imaginary.

2. Speculative or theoretical.

3. Linguistics Understood in terms of semantic content rather than grammatical structure. The word did is notional in We did the work and relational in We did not agree.

4. Economics Of or relating to the underlying asset or principal of a financial derivative such as a swap contract.

no′tion·al·ly adv.

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notional

(ˈnəʊʃənəl)

adj

1. relating to, expressing, or consisting of notions or ideas

2. not evident in reality; hypothetical or imaginary: a notional tax credit.

3. characteristic of a notion or concept, esp in being speculative or imaginary; abstract

4. (Linguistics) grammar

a. (of a word) having lexical meaning

ˈnotionally adv

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no•tion•al

(ˈnoʊ ʃə nl)

adj.

1. pertaining to, expressing, or of the nature of a notion or idea.

2. abstract, theoretical, or speculative.

3. not real; imaginary.

4. given to or full of foolish or fanciful ideas or moods.

5.

a. pertaining to or based on the meaning expressed by a linguistic item: the notional definition of a noun as “a person, place, or thing.”

b. (of a word) having full lexical rather than just grammatical meaning (contrasted with relational).

[1590–1600]

no′tion•al•ly, adv.

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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Adj. 1. notional — not based on fact; unreal; «the falsehood about some fanciful secret treaties»- F.D.Roosevelt; «a small child’s imaginary friends»; «to create a notional world for oneself»

imaginary, fanciful

unreal — lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria; «ghosts and other unreal entities»; «unreal propaganda serving as news»
2. notional — not based on fact or investigation; «a notional figure of cost helps in determining production costs»; «speculative knowledge»

speculative

theoretic, theoretical — concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations; «theoretical science»
3. notional — indulging in or influenced by fancy; «a fanciful mind»; «all the notional vagaries of childhood»

fanciful

creative, originative — having the ability or power to create; «a creative imagination»
4. notional — being of the nature of a notion or concept; «a plan abstract and conceptional»; «to improve notional comprehension»; «a notional response to the question»

conceptional, ideational

abstract — existing only in the mind; separated from embodiment; «abstract words like `truth’ and `justice'»

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notional

adjective hypothetical, ideal, abstract, theoretical, imaginary, speculative, conceptual, unreal, fanciful the notional value of assets
real, actual, genuine, factual, dinkum (Austral & N.Z. informal)

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notional

adjective

Existing only in the imagination:

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Translations

kuvailevakuvitteellinenviite

notional

[ˈnəʊʃənl] ADJ

1. (Fin) [value, profit, amount, capital, income] → hipotético, teórico

Collins Spanish Dictionary — Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

notional

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notional

[ˈnəʊʃən/əl] adj (figure, amount, price) → simbolico/a

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воображаемый, смысловой, умозрительный, отвлеченный, теоретический, значимый

прилагательное ↓

- умозрительный; отвлечённый
- понятийный
- воображаемый
- с богатой фантазией; капризный, причудливый
- придирчивый; (слишком) щепетильный
- лингв. значащий, понятийный

notional category — понятийная категория 

- номинальный; минимальный, символический

Мои примеры

Словосочетания

to create a notional world for oneself — создать для себя воображаемый мир  
a notional response to the question — теоретический / абстрактный ответ на этот вопрос  
notional international boundary — условная государственная граница; условная международная граница  
notional amount — условная сумма  
notional central rate — условный центральный курс  
notional cost of product gas — теоретическая себестоимость генераторного газа  
notional cost — воображаемые затраты; отвлечённые затраты  
notional force — условная войсковая единица  
notional growth rate — условная величина темпов роста  
notional occupation — фиктивная оккупация  
notional price — условная цена  
notional ship — условное судно  

Примеры с переводом

A notional figure of cost helps in determining production costs. 

Условная цифра затрат помогает определить издержки производства.

The notional earnings of the company were close to the actual ones. 

Условный доход компании был близок к реальному.

Their calculations were based on a notional minimum wage. 

Их расчёты основывались на условной минимальной заработной плате.

She has a notional understanding of romantic love but no actual experience of being in love. 

У неё есть умозрительное представление о романтической любви, но по-настоящему она ещё никогда не влюблялась.

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notionalist  — мыслитель, теоретик
notionally  — умозрительно, отвлеченно, номинально, символически, капризно, причудливо

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Princeton’s WordNetRate this definition:2.0 / 1 vote

  1. fanciful, imaginary, notionaladjective

    not based on fact; unreal

    «the falsehood about some fanciful secret treaties»- F.D.Roosevelt; «a small child’s imaginary friends»; «to create a notional world for oneself»

  2. notional, speculativeadjective

    not based on fact or investigation

    «a notional figure of cost helps in determining production costs»; «speculative knowledge»

  3. fanciful, notionaladjective

    indulging in or influenced by fancy

    «a fanciful mind»; «all the notional vagaries of childhood»

  4. conceptional, ideational, notionaladjective

    being of the nature of a notion or concept

    «a plan abstract and conceptional»; «to improve notional comprehension»; «a notional response to the question»

WiktionaryRate this definition:3.0 / 1 vote

  1. notionaladjective

    Of, containing, or being a notion; mental or imaginary.

  2. notionaladjective

    Speculative, theoretical, not the result of research.

    This paper proposes a notional Federated Identity Management (FIM) architecture.

  3. notionaladjective

    Having descriptive value as opposed to a syntactic category.

Samuel Johnson’s DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

  1. Notionaladjective

    Etymology: from notion.

    1. Imaginary; ideal; intellectual; subsisting only in idea; visionary; fantastical.

    The general and indefinite contemplations and notions, of the elements and their conjugations, of the influences of heaven, are to be set aside, being but notional and ill-limited; and definite axioms are to be drawn out of measured instances.
    Francis Bacon, Natural History, №. 835.

    Happiness, object of that waking dream
    Which we call life, mistaking; fugitive theme
    Of my pursuing verse, ideal shade,
    Notional good, by fancy only made.
    Matthew Prior.

    We must be wary, lest we ascribe any real subsistence or personality to this nature or chance; for it is merely a notional and imaginary thing; an abstract universal, which is properly nothing; a conception of our own making, occasioned by our reflecting upon the settled course of things; denoting only thus much, that all those bodies move and act according to their essential properties, without any consciousness or intention of so doing.
    Richard Bentley, Serm.

    2. Dealing in ideas, not realities.

    The most forward notional dictators sit down in a contented ignorance.
    Joseph Glanvill, Sceps. c. xx.

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  1. Notional

    See Notional amount or Notional profit for economic terms Notional (born February 1, 2004 in California) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse. He was sired by In Excess and out of the mare Truly Blessed. His damsire, French Deputy, is a son of the 1997/98 Leading sire in North America, Deputy Minister.
    Notional is trained by Doug O’Neill for owner J. Paul Reddam, who also have three-year-olds Great Hunter and Liquidity in their stable. Racing at age two, Notional’s best showing in a stakes race was a third in the 2006 Hollywood Prevue Stakes.
    In his three-year-old debut, Notional won January’s Grade II San Rafael Stakes at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California by four lengths under jockey Corey Nakatani. Sent to the Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans, Louisiana in February, Notional scored a 21⁄4 length win in the Risen Star Stakes under jockey Robby Albarado in a race where favorite Circular Quay was seriously impeded as a result of a race accident.
    Notional came in a close second to Scat Daddy in the Florida Derby in his last prep before the Kentucky Derby. While he was set to run the Triple Crown races, Notional suffered a fracture of his front cannon bone during a workout at Keeneland three weeks before the running of the Kentucky Derby. He will undergo surgery for the injury which is not life-threatening, but there is question about whether he will be able to return to racing. He did not run in any of the Triple Crown races.
    Having an uneventful four-year-old season, Notional returned to form winning the July 5th, 2008 running of the Salvator Mile Handicap under Joe Bravo.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

  1. Notionaladjective

    consisting of, or conveying, notions or ideas; expressing abstract conceptions

  2. Notionaladjective

    existing in idea only; visionary; whimsical

  3. Notionaladjective

    given to foolish or visionary expectations; whimsical; fanciful; as, a notional man

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  1. Notional

    Notional is an American Thoroughbred racehorse. He was sired by In Excess and out of the mare Truly Blessed. His damsire, French Deputy, is a son of the 1997/98 Leading sire in North America, Deputy Minister.
    Notional is trained by Doug O’Neill for owner J. Paul Reddam, who also have three-year-olds Great Hunter and Liquidity in their stable. Racing at age two, Notional’s best showing in a stakes race was a third in the 2006 Hollywood Prevue Stakes.
    In his three-year-old debut, Notional won January’s Grade II San Rafael Stakes at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California by four lengths under jockey Corey Nakatani. Sent to the Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans, Louisiana in February, Notional scored a 2¼ length win in the Risen Star Stakes under jockey Robby Albarado in a race where favorite Circular Quay was seriously impeded as a result of a race accident.
    Notional came in a close second to Scat Daddy in the Florida Derby in his last prep before the Kentucky Derby. While he was set to run the Triple Crown races, Notional suffered a fracture of his front cannon bone during a workout at Keeneland three weeks before the running of the Kentucky Derby. He will undergo surgery for the injury which is not life threatening, but there is question about whether he will be able to return to racing. He did not run in any of the Triple Crown races.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of notional in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of notional in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

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  1. Saptarshi Bandyopadhyay:

    Saptarshi Bandyopadhyay wrote in the proposal. Notional view of LCRT on the far-side of the Moon. ( Courtesy of Saptarshi Bandyopadhyay)( Saptarshi Bandyopadhyay) LCRT could enable tremendous scientific discoveries in the field of cosmology by observing the early universe in the 1050m wavelength band( i.e., 630MHz frequency band), which has not been explored by humans to date.

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    • US Pronunciation
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    • [noh-shuh-nl]
    • /ˈnoʊ ʃə nl/
    • /ˈnəʊ.ʃən.əl/
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    • [noh-shuh-nl]
    • /ˈnoʊ ʃə nl/

Definitions of notional word

  • adjective notional pertaining to or expressing a notion or idea. 1
  • adjective notional of the nature of a notion or idea: a notional response to the question. 1
  • adjective notional abstract, theoretical, or speculative, as reflective thought. 1
  • adjective notional not real or actual; ideal or imaginary: to create a notional world for oneself. 1
  • adjective notional given to or full of foolish or fanciful ideas or moods. 1
  • adjective notional Grammar. relating to the meaning expressed by a linguistic form. having full lexical meaning, in contrast to relational. 1

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One of the 37% oldest English words

First recorded in 1590-1600; notion + -al1

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adjective notional

  • theoretical — given to, forming, or dealing with theories; speculative.
  • estimated — Simple past tense and past participle of estimate.
  • speculative — pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by speculation, contemplation, conjecture, or abstract reasoning: a speculative approach.
  • academic — Academic is used to describe things that relate to the work done in schools, colleges, and universities, especially work which involves studying and reasoning rather than practical or technical skills.
  • hypothetical — assumed by hypothesis; supposed: a hypothetical case.

Antonyms for notional

adjective notional

  • real — true; not merely ostensible, nominal, or apparent: the real reason for an act.

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of, containing, or being a notion; mental or imaginary.
  • adjective Speculative or theoretical.
  • adjective Linguistics Understood in terms of semantic content rather than grammatical structure. The word did is notional in We did the work and relational in We did not agree.
  • adjective Economics Of or relating to the underlying asset or principal of a financial derivative such as a swap contract.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to or expressing a notion or general conception; formed by abstraction and generalization; also, produced by metaphysical or logical reflection.
  • Imaginary; ideal; existing in idea only; visionary; fantastical.
  • Dealing in imaginary things; whimsical; fanciful: as, a notional man.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Consisting of, or conveying, notions or ideas; expressing abstract conceptions.
  • adjective Existing in idea only; visionary; whimsical.
  • adjective Given to foolish or visionary expectations; whimsical; fanciful.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of, containing, or being a notion; mental or imaginary.
  • adjective Speculative, theoretical, not the result of research.
  • adjective linguistics Having descriptive value as opposed to a syntactic category.
  • adjective finance Used to indicate an estimate or a reference amount

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective indulging in or influenced by fancy
  • adjective being of the nature of a notion or concept
  • adjective not based on fact; unreal
  • adjective not based on fact or investigation

Etymologies

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notion +‎ -al

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  • Alongside the regular steps to the building’s 59th Street entrance, Mr. Abadan has created what he calls «notional» steps, too far apart to be comfortably ascended, but well-suited for seating.

    Transforming a City Campus

  • Problems with «notional» — becomes difficult to extract wisdom — we want a «Gross Domestic Product» — unable to be defended — pseudo-scientific — lots of belief statements from Mark Curphey’s SecurityBullshit

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  • But, I thought you couldn’t call it ‘receivership’ either, because those all trillions and trillions of imaginary dollars in notional value Credit Default Swaps have to pay out for banks that go into ‘recievership’ and to have those unexploded CDS liabilities go from imaginary to real would be the world financial system equivalent of Global Thermonuclear War.

    Matthew Yglesias » Eisinger and Salmon on Bank Nationalization

  • The IRS in its ruling gave an example of a swap deal: A foreign company enters into a swap — also known as a notional principal contract — with a U.S. company as counterparty, based on an index published by X.

    Foreigners Investing in U.S.

  • It was the realisation of much which I have affirmed all my life, and steadfastly believed as well, but only with what might be called a notional assent, as the blind man might believe that light is sweet, or one who had never experienced pain might believe it was something from which the senses shrink.

    Cecilia de Noël

  • The second kind of light may be called a notional scripture light; that is, a bare knowledge of or assent to scripture truths.

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII.

  • Even Alan Greenspan concedes that that market — worth $55 trillion in what is called notional value

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  • Even Alan Greenspan concedes that that market — worth $55 trillion in what is called notional value — is imploding in significant part because it was not regulated.

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  • John McHale argued for the idea of notional defined contribution pensions and provided a thought-provoking discussion of the nature of the Irish pension system and the challenges facing it.

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  • That good-looking guy Warren Buffett in 2002 after buying General [inaudible] announced that these derivatives are the weapons of mass destruction and why he said that is because he found he couldn’t find a true bid for his derivative book and it was based on what’s called notional value.

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