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Webster 1913 Edition
Notional
No′tion-al
,Adj.
1.
Consisting of, or conveying, notions or ideas; expressing abstract conceptions.
2.
Existing in idea only; visionary; whimsical.
Discourses of speculative and
notional
things. Evelyn.
3.
Given to foolish or visionary expectations; whimsical; fanciful;
as, a
. notional
manWebster 1828 Edition
Notional
NO'TIONAL
,Adj.
1.
Imaginary; ideal; existing in idea only; visionary; fantastical.Notional good, by fancy only made. A notional and imaginary thing.
2.
Dealing in imaginary things; whimsical; fanciful; as a notional man.Definition 2024
notional
notional
English
Adjective
notional (comparative more notional, superlative most notional)
- Of, containing, or being a notion; mental or imaginary.
- Speculative, theoretical, not the result of research.
- This paper proposes a notional Federated Identity Management (FIM) architecture.
- (linguistics) Having descriptive value as opposed to a syntactic category.
- (finance) Used to indicate an estimate or a reference amount
- 2009 March 11, “Gold inches up on bargain hunt, ETF hits record”, in Ninemsn:
- Gold traded at $909.00 an ounce, up 0.2 percent from New York's notional close of $906.65 on Wednesday.
- 2009 March 3, “Harvard Accepts Higher Debt Costs as Bankers Profit”, in Bloomberg:
- Under the agreements, Harvard paid the banks fixed interest rates on a total notional amount of $3.52 billion in exchange for floating-rate payments from them.
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Derived terms
Translations
of, containing, or being a notion
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speculative, theoretical
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