"Nominal" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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名义 míng yì name / titular / nominal / in name / ostensible purpose
标称 biāo chēng nominal (voltage, horsepower etc)
公称 gōng chēng nominal
有名无实 yǒu míng wú shí lit. has a name but no reality (idiom) / exists only in name / nominal
有名亡实 yǒu míng wáng shí lit. has a name but no reality (idiom) / exists only in name / nominal
聊备一格 liáo bèi yī gé to use as a stopgap / to make a perfunctory gesture / token / nominal
挂名 guà míng to attach sb's name to (a role) / to go by the title of / nominal / in name only
的 de of / ~'s (possessive particle) / (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun) / (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis) / (used after a noun, verb or adjective to form a nominal expression, as in 皮革的[pi2ge2 de5] "one made of leather" or 跑堂兒的|跑堂儿的[pao3tang2r5de5] "a waiter (literally, one who runs back and forth in a restaurant)" or 新的[xin1 de5] "new one") / also pr. [di4] or [di5] in poetry and songs
也 yě also / too / as well / (not ...) either / (used after a verbal or nominal expression X to indicate that X is an extreme or unexpected case) even (X) / (literary) particle having functions similar to 啊[a5]
标称核武器 biāo chēng hé wǔ qì nominal weapon
名义价值 míng yì jià zhí nominal value
名义账户 míng yì zhàng hù nominal bank account
名量词 míng liàng cí nominal classifier (in Chinese grammar) / measure word applying mainly to nouns
设计当量  nominal yield
名义零增长 míng yì líng zēng zhǎng zero nominal growth
名义渔获量  nominal catch
虚职 xū zhí nominal position
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