How did nominal come to mean “within acceptable tolerances”? https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/184876/how-did-nominal-come-to-mean-within-acceptable-

How did nominal come to mean “within acceptable tolerances”? https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/184876/how-did-nominal-come-to-mean-within-acceptable-tolerances https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/184876/how-did-n... So, it's another way of saying something is 'out of tolerance'.