notional

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈnəʊʃənəl/    美 /ˈnoʊʃənəl/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A fake company used as a front in espionage.
    — Numerous CIA notionals, created to counter Communist organizations in Western Europe during the Cold War years, remain active and unrevealed.
形容词 adj.
  1. Of, containing, or being a notion; mental or imaginary.
    — Near-synonyms: conceptual, fancied, fanciful, ideal
  2. Speculative, theoretical, not the result of research.
    — This paper proposes a notional Federated Identity Management (FIM) architecture.
  3. Stubborn. Maine
  4. Having descriptive value as opposed to a syntactic category.
  5. Used to indicate an estimate or a reference amount
    — Gold traded at $909.00 an ounce, up 0.2 percent from New York's notional close of $906.65 on Wednesday.
  6. Full of ideas or imaginings. informal
    — She knew what Pete would say if she told him about it — he would say she was getting notional; and she did not want Pete to think of her as a notional woman. Notional women sometimes had a hard time marrying unless they had money.

词形变化

more notional comparative most notional superlative notionals plural

词汇关系

衍生词
nonnotional notional amount notionalist notionality notionally notionalness

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
English notion
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
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Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English notional
From notion + -al.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English notion
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English notional
From notion + -al.
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