nominal scale

noun

1. statistics a discrete classification of data, in which data are neither measured nor ordered but subjects are merely allocated to distinct categories: for example, a record of students' course choices constitutes nominal data which could be correlated with school results Compare ordinal scale interval scale ratio scale

Example Sentences

And not to deliberately make you happy, which it will, I am jealous albeit on a nominal scale as anchored as I am in reason.

From Project Gutenberg