normal

Plural: normals

Noun

• The usual, regular, or expected state or condition.
• something regarded as a normative example
• A line or vector that is perpendicular to another line, surface, or plane.
• A person who is healthy, normal, as opposed to one who is morbid.
• A person who is normal, who fits into mainstream society, as opposed to those who live alternative lifestyles.
• The usual state.

Adjective

• conforming with or constituting a norm or standard or level or type or social norm; not abnormal
  • "serve wine at normal room temperature"
  • "normal diplomatic relations"
  • "normal working hours"
  • "normal word order"
  • "normal curiosity"
  • "the normal course of events"
• in accordance with scientific laws
• being approximately average or within certain limits in e.g. intelligence and development
  • "a perfectly normal child"
  • "of normal intelligence"
  • "the most normal person I've ever met"

Adjective Satellite

• forming a right angle

Adj

• According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
• According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
• Adhering to or being what is considered natural or regular in a particular field or context:
• In whose representation in a given base b ≥ 2, for every positive integer n, the bⁿ possible strings of n digits follow a uniform distribution.
• According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
• Adhering to or being what is considered natural or regular in a particular field or context:
• With cosets which form a group.
• According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
• Adhering to or being what is considered natural or regular in a particular field or context:
• Which is the splitting field of a family of polynomials in K.
• According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
• Adhering to or being what is considered natural or regular in a particular field or context:
• Which has a very specific bell curve shape; that is or has the qualities of a normal distribution.
• According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
• Adhering to or being what is considered natural or regular in a particular field or context:
• Which has a normal distribution; which is associated with a random variable that has a normal distribution.
• According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
• Adhering to or being what is considered natural or regular in a particular field or context:
• Which is pre-compact.
• According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
• Adhering to or being what is considered natural or regular in a particular field or context:
• Which is strictly monotonically increasing and continuous with respect to the order topology.
• According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
• Adhering to or being what is considered natural or regular in a particular field or context:
• Which commutes with its conjugate transpose.
• According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
• Adhering to or being what is considered natural or regular in a particular field or context:
• Which commutes with its adjoint.
• According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
• Adhering to or being what is considered natural or regular in a particular field or context:
• Being (as a morphism) or containing (as a category) only normal epimorphism(s) or monomorphism(s), that is, those which are the kernel or cokernel of some morphism, respectively.
• According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
• Adhering to or being what is considered natural or regular in a particular field or context:
• In which disjoint closed sets can be separated by disjoint neighborhoods.
• According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
• Adhering to or being what is considered natural or regular in a particular field or context:
• Integrally closed: equal its own integral closure in its field of fractions.
• According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
• Adhering to or being what is considered natural or regular in a particular field or context:
• Such that all of its localizations at prime ideals are integrally closed domains.
• According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
• Adhering to or being what is considered natural or regular in a particular field or context:
• Such that the local ring at every point is an integrally closed domain.
• Usual, healthy; not sick or ill or unlike oneself.
• Usual, healthy; not sick or ill or unlike oneself.
• Fervently interested in a subject; obsessed.
• Teaching teachers how to teach; teaching teachers the norms of education.
• Of, relating to, or being a solution containing one equivalent weight of solute per litre of solution.
• Describing a straight chain isomer of an aliphatic hydrocarbon, or an aliphatic compound in which a substituent is in the 1- position of such a hydrocarbon.
• In which all parts of an object vibrate at the same frequency (a normal mode).
• In the default position, set for the most frequently used route.
• Perpendicular to a tangent of a curve or tangent plane of a surface.

Examples

• A number that is normal for every base b ≥ 2 is said to be absolutely normal.
• A number whose individual digits in a given base representation follow a uniform distribution is said to be simply normal.
• A score of 20 points per turn was considered quite normal for a good Words With Friends player.
• Heavy workload is the new normal.
• His workload is now back to normal.
• I wrote a 30-page analysis of the show’s villain because I’m very normal about them.
• John is feeling normal again.
• My grandmother attended Mankato State Normal School; my grandfather attended Illinois State Normal University.
• Organize the data into third normal form.
• The interior normal vector of a perfect sphere always point toward the center, and the exterior normal vector directly away, and both are always collinear with the ray whose tip ends at the point of intersection, which is the intersection of all three sets of points.

Synonyms

convention, formula, pattern, rule, Gaussian, at right angle to, average, banal, basic, bog-standard, common, common-or-garden, commonplace, congruent, consistent, conventional, customary, everyday, expected, garden variety, general, hale, healthy, mainstreamer, mundane, natural, normal, ordinary, orthogonal, perpendicular, plain, regular, routine, run-of-the-mill, standard, standard normal, true, typical, unexceptional, uniform, unremarkable, unstrange, usual, vulgar, well

Antonyms

abnormal, paranormal, conspicuous, different, egregious, exceptional, historic, ill, interesting, memorable, nonstandard, notable, noteworthy, outstanding, poorly, remarkable, reverse, sick, special, strange, tangential, unconventional, unique, unusual, unwell

Related Words

according to Hoyle, agreeable, by the book, by the numbers, inevitable, intermediate, moderate, no great shakes, norm, normality, normalization, normalize, normalized, normally, normcore, normie, shipshape and Bristol fashion, to the letter

Anagrams of normal