A nominal category or a nominal group is a group of objects or ideas that can be collectively grouped on the basis of shared, arbitrary characteristic.

* Nominal group, alias for nominal category in statistics

The category of animacy is relevant in Russian nominal and adjectival declension.

American Reformed theologian Douglas Wilson disagrees with the category of " nominal Christian " and argues that all who are baptized enter into a covenant with God, and are obliged to serve him ; there is, therefore, " no such thing as a merely nominal Christian any more than we can find a man who is a nominal husband ".

It appears to have originated as a usage in school textbooks derived from the statistical term " nominal data ", defined as data indicating "... erely statements of qualitative category of membership.

On the other hand, other foundational descriptions of category theory are considerably stronger, and an identical category-theoretic statement of choice may be stronger than the standard formulation, à la class theory, mentioned above.

The class of all unital associative R-algebras together with algebra homomorphisms between them form a category, sometimes denoted R-Alg.

The class of all Boolean algebras, together with this notion of morphism, forms a full subcategory of the category of lattices.

Lutz uses the example of parity products: products in which most, if not all, brands in a class or category are of similar quality.

) The composition of two such homomorphisms is again a homomorphism, and the class of all Lie groups, together with these morphisms, forms a category.

Category theory, another field within " foundational mathematics ", is rooted on the abstract axiomatization of the definition of a " class of mathematical structures ", referred to as a " category ".

Foodservice establishments of this class would also have long term contracts with Beijing opera troupes to perform onsite, but they did not have long term contracts with famous performers ( such as national treasure class performers ) to perform onsite on regular basis, however these topnotch performers would still perform at foodservice establishments of this category occasionally.

In category theory, a category whose collection of objects forms a proper class ( or whose collection of morphisms forms a proper class ) is called a large category.

The UK category system does, however, class such degrees as Information technology and Game design as ' computer science ', somewhat inflating the actual figure.

It follows that the class of all rings forms a category with ring homomorphisms as the morphisms ( cf.

Skuld has a Goddess second class, type one, limited license, a category similar to her eldest sister Urd.

Another category, sovereign bonds, is generally sold by auction to a specialized class of dealers.

In grammar, a part of speech ( also a word class, a lexical class, or a lexical category ) is a linguistic category of words ( or more precisely lexical items ), which is generally defined by the syntactic or morphological behaviour of the lexical item in question.

The class of Abelian categories is closed under several categorical constructions, for example, the category of chain complexes of an Abelian category, or the category of functors from a small category to an Abelian category are Abelian as well.

* A category C enriched in a monoidal category M replaces the notion of a set of morphisms between pairs of objects in C with the notion of an M-object of morphisms between every two objects in C.

:* Small Team ( 4-8 Drillers ) ( Note: this category replaces Tetrad and Squad )

was also created the category Mini Challenge Brasil replaces Stock Jr.

A Commonwealth citizen, which replaces the former category of British subject, is generally a person who is a national of any country within the Commonwealth of Nations.

Since it requires only five players, it would seem to fall into the category of chamber music -- yet it calls for a double bass, an instrument generally regarded as symphonic.

It is the only county in the state so far this month reporting a possible shortage in GA category, for which emergency allotment can be given by the state if necessary.

William Smythe, director of field service, told the commissioners that Multnomah, as of Aug. 22, had spent $58,918 out of its budgeted $66,000 in the category, leaving only $7,082 for the rest of the month.

It is the only Canadian university selected for inclusion in the Education and Academia category of the Computerworld Smithsonian Award.

Only rarely did they describe their work as astronomical, and then only as a secondary category.

Of the latter, only a few precious metals occur in pure forms, but other purified base metals may as well be placed in this category along with certain naturally-occurring alloys such as electrum.

They comprise one category of substance ( ousiae ) existing independently ( man, tree ) and nine categories of accidents, which can only exist in something else ( time, place ).

The sacrifice fly as a statistical category was instituted in 1908, only to be discontinued in 1931.

The choice between the two definitions usually matters only in very formal contexts, like category theory.

In the BWF World Championships, first held in 1977, currently only the highest ranked 64 players in the world, and a maximum of four from each country, can participate in any category.

What it means to take the category physical object seriously as a category of being is to assert that the concept of physical objecthood cannot be reduced to or explicated in any other terms-not, for example, in terms of bundles of properties but only in terms of other items in that category.

For Gilbert Ryle ( 1949 ), a category ( in particular a " category mistake ") is an important semantic concept, but one having only loose affinities to an ontological category.

In general, the mainstream psychiatric opinion remains that if a diagnostic category is valid, cross-cultural factors are either irrelevant or are only significant to specific symptom presentations.

It has been described as remarkable that Kraepelin now considered mood disturbances to be not part of the same category, but only attenuated ( more mild ) phases of manic depressive illness ; this corresponds to current classification schemes.

There are also several grammatical " particles " which don't fit neatly into any category, and which must generally precede the words they modify, such as ne ( not ), ankaŭ ( also ), nur ( only ), eĉ ( even ).

People with seizures that occur only after specific precipitants (" provoked seizures "), have " epilepsies " that fall into this category.

In this context the term " professional " ( used for the first category ) as opposed to " amateur " ( used for the second and third ) refers only to the professionalism of the used medium, and not to the professionalism of the language itself or its creator.

Like every partially ordered set, Open ( X ) forms a small category by adding a single arrow U → V if and only if.

* Worst Film You Never Saw ( category for films never completed or only released in a limited fashion ): Billy Jack Goes to Washington

Halakhic authorities may disagree on which laws fall into which categories or the circumstances ( if any ) under which prior Rabbinic rulings can be re-examined by contemporary rabbis, but all halakhic Jews hold that both categories exist and that the first category is immutable, with exceptions only for life-saving and similar emergency circumstances.

Any partially ordered set I can be considered as a small category where the morphisms consist of arrows i → j if and only if i ≤ j.