noun
noun clause; nominal clause
Linguistics term for a clause that functions as a noun within a sentence.
「彼が来るかどうか」は名詞節として主語になる。
"Whether he comes" functions as a noun clause and becomes the subject.
名詞句 is a noun phrase, while 名詞節 is a noun clause (containing a subject and predicate).
Compound of 名詞 (noun) and 節 (clause), a straightforward calque from Western grammatical terminology.