Nominal

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  • In computer science, nominal techniques are a series of approaches for working with, and simplifying the reasoning about, formal languages with name binding constructs. The approaches are based on Fraenkel-Mostowski set theory. Permutations of names, freshness conditions, and atoms, used for representing names, are central components in nominal approaches. Nominal Isabelle is a package for the Isabelle proof assistant that simplifies proving properties about languages with binders using nominal techniques.
  • In law, nominal damages may be assessed by a jury or judge in a lawsuit when it is found that the defendant committed the act complained of by the plaintiff, but that no harm was suffered by the plaintiff as a result.
  • In linguistics, a nominal is a word or group of words functioning as a noun. The word is also sometimes used as a shortened form of "nominal phrase", a synonym for "noun phrase". "Nominal" can also mean a sequence of one or more nouns that do not form a complete noun phrase. In other uses, it refers to a class of word that encapsulates both parts of speech in English as nouns and adjectives.
  • In statistics, nominal data is a form of categorical data where the order of the categories is not significant. This is sometimes contracted to nominals.
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