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Definition of Normal

1. Adjective. Conforming with or constituting a norm or standard or level or type or social norm; not abnormal. "The normal course of events"

2. Noun. Something regarded as a normative example. "His formula for impressing visitors"

3. Adjective. In accordance with scientific laws.

4. Adjective. Being approximately average or within certain limits in e.g. intelligence and development. "The most normal person I've ever met"

5. Adjective. Forming a right angle.

Definition of Normal

1. a. According to an established norm, rule, or principle; conformed to a type, standard, or regular form; performing the proper functions; not abnormal; regular; natural; analogical.

2. n. Any perpendicular.

Definition of Normal

1. Adjective. According to norms or rules. ¹

2. Adjective. Usual; ordinary ¹

3. Adjective. Healthy; not sick or ill ¹

4. Adjective. Pertaining to a school to teach teachers how to teach. ¹

5. Adjective. (chemistry) of, relating to, or being a solution containing one equivalent weight of solute per litre of solution. ¹

6. Adjective. (organic chemistry) 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 ¹

7. Adjective. (physics) (''Of a mode in an oscillating system'') In which all parts of an object vibrate at the same frequency; See normal mode ¹

8. Adjective. (geometry) Perpendicular to a tangent line or derivative of a surface in Euclidean space. ¹

9. Adjective. (algebra) (Of a subgroup) whose cosets form a group ¹

10. Adjective. (algebra) (Of a field extension of a field K) which is the splitting field of a family of polynomials in K ¹

11. Adjective. (probability theory statistics) (Of a distribution) which has a very specific bell curve shape ¹

12. Adjective. (complex analysis) (Of a family of continuous functions) which is pre-compact ¹

13. Adjective. (set theory) (Of a function from the ordinals to the ordinals) which is strictly monotonically increasing and continuous with respect to the order topology ¹

14. Adjective. (linear algebra) (Of a matrix) which commutes with its conjugate transpose ¹

15. Adjective. (functional analysis) (Of a Hilbert space operator) which commutes with its adjoint ¹

16. Adjective. (category theory) (Of an epimorphism) which is the cokernel of some morphism ¹

17. Adjective. (category theory) (Of a monomorphism) which is the kernel of some morphism ¹

18. Adjective. (category theory) (Of a morphism) which is a normal epimorphism or a normal monomorphism ¹

19. Adjective. (category theory) (Of a category) in which every monomorphism is normal ¹

20. Adjective. (Of a real number) whose digits, in any base representation, enjoy a uniform distribution ¹

21. Adjective. (topology) (Of a topology) in which disjoint closed sets can be separated by disjoint neighborhoods ¹

22. Adjective. (rail transport of points) in the default position, set for the most frequently used route. ¹

23. Noun. (geometry) A line or vector that is perpendicular to another line, surface, or plane. ¹

24. Noun. (slang) A person who is normal, who fits into mainstream society, as opposed to those who live alternative lifestyles. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Normal

1. the usual or expected state or form [n -S]

Medical Definition of Normal

1. An imaginary line forming a right angle with the tangent to a curved surface at a particular point. It is used as a basis for determining angles of incidence, reflection, and refraction. (05 Aug 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Normal

norm norma norma anterior norma basilaris norma facialis norma frontalis norma inferior norma lateralis norma occipitalis norma posterior

norma sagittalis norma superior norma temporalis norma ventralis norma verticalis normal (current term) normal animal normal antibody normal antitoxin normal bite

normal butyric acid normal cholesteraemic xanthomatosis normal curve normal distribution normal dwarf normal electrical axis normal fault normal for Norfolk normal force normal form

Literary usage of Normal

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Annual Report by Chicago (Ill.). Board of Education (1901)
"Francis W. Parker had been elected, the normal School was at the beginning of the school year placed in the charge of William M. Giffin, principal of the ..."

2. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"logical states (see below) in which tbe fires in the body burn lower than normal (the "total metabolism" being too low), amounts of food and exercise that ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"13) ; Gordy, JP, 'Rise and Growth of the normal School Idea in the United ... 14) ; Judd and Parker, 'Problems Involved in Standardizing State normal ..."

4. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1893)
"by changes in the lengths of the normal curves are sought. Only two of the twelve series ... The average normal curves varied between 2.14 cm. and 23.25 cm. ..."

5. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1917)
"Ann Am Acad 74:57-65 normal school libraries normal school libraries. OS Rice. Nat Educ Assn 1916:669-71 normal schools Brown university and the Rhode ..."

6. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1889)
"Moughton 1 50 normal Parsing Book normal 20 Allen's History Topics Heath. f25 ... Suggestive Lessons in Language and Heading Heath tl 25 normal 26 Baldwin's ..."

7. Psychology, General Introduction by Charles Hubbard Judd (1917)
"These negative cases as evidences of the relation between normal consciousness and organization. These different cases show the relation between nervous ..."

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