nome (1)

[Gr. nomos=a district, from nemo = to a ign by lot.] 1. Ord. Lang .: A province or political district of a country, espec. in modern Greece and Egypt. "The capital of the Antinoite nome." -Blackwood's Magazine , Nov., 1881, p. 572. 2. Mus .: Any melody determined by inviolable rules. nō-mē (2), 8. [NOMA.]