nominal scale

nominal scale
the weakest qualitative, not quantitative or ordered, classification of the samples into separate categories so that each possible result belongs to only one category, with the categories not able to be ordered relative to each other, e.g., one dealing with religion or sex and not size, weight, or temperature. Cf. ordinal s.

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