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Nominal group refers to a collection of individuals that meets only the most minimal of requirements to be considered a group, and so is a group in name only. In studies of performance, Nominal group is a control or baseline group created by having individuals work alone and then pooling their products. Likewise, Nominal group is a collection of individuals whose results are pooled but who never interact with one another.

Nominal group technique (NGT) refers to a group performance method wherein a face-to-face group session is prefaced by a nominal-group phase during which individuals work alone to generate ideas.

Nominal kind refers to the arbitrary assignment of a label to an entity that meets a certain set of prespecified conditions

Nominal measure refers to a variable whose attributes have only the characteristics of exhaustiveness and mutual exclusiveness. In other words, a level of measurement describing a variable that has attributes that are merely different, as distinguished from ordinal, interval, or ratio measures. An example of Nominal measure would be Gender.

Nominal scale is defined as a measurement scale that possesses the property of difference; a scale of measurement in which the categories represent qualitative differences in the variable being measured. The categories have different names but are not related to each other in any systematic way.

Nominal-kind concept are concepts pertaining to ideas or objects that have well-delimited definitions.

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Nominalism is the belief that so-called universals are nothing more than verbal labels or mental habits which are used to denote classes of experience.

Nomothetic refers to an approach to explanation in which people seek to identify a few causal factors that generally impact a class of conditions or events. Imagine the 2 or 3 key factors that determine which colleges students choose, such as proximity, reputation, and so forth. By contrast, please see Idiographic.