0 in name or thought but not in fact, or not as things really are: --
While nominally a film student, Barnett had no aspirations of a career behind the camera.
The province is nominally independent.
1 according to what something or someone is said to be, although they are not actually that thing: --
The charity was, at least nominally, supervised by the government.
He remains nominally in charge, but because he has no access to the factory he has almost nothing to do.
2 used when talking about prices or rates that are correct at the present time but do not show the effect of inflation: --
But across all age groups, expository texts are nominally denser than narratives, and hence more complex linguistically and informatively richer.
Though termed 'protectorates' and still nominally under their own rulers, these states were in effect governed as colonies.
The air in the test section was nominally at room temperature and atmospheric pressure.
Nominally, the measurement cycle involves taking a panoramic survey and measurement of environmental parameters.
In this work, we performed the integration using a nominally second-order time accurate predictor-corrector scheme.
Only when she moved out of the military community to go to a public high school, nominally integrated, did she experience real discrimination.
A nominally free press is harassed in myriad ways, and the government retains a radio monopoly.
Conceivably, this could mean that two interpreters nominally interpreting the same object could actually be working from two quite different sets of data.
