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
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