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normal
1[nawr-muhl]
adjective
conforming to the standard or the common type; usual; not abnormal; regular; natural.
serving to establish a standard.
Psychology.
approximately average in any psychological trait, as intelligence, personality, or emotional adjustment.
free from any mental disorder; sane.
Biology, Medicine/Medical.
free from any infection or other form of disease or malformation, or from experimental therapy or manipulation.
of natural occurrence.
Mathematics.
being at right angles, as a line; perpendicular.
of the nature of or relating to a mathematical normal.
(of an orthogonal system of real functions) defined so that the integral of the square of the absolute value of any function is 1.
(of a topological space) having the property that corresponding to every pair of disjoint closed sets are two disjoint open sets, each containing one of the closed sets.
(of a set) having the property that the same set results when all the elements of the set are operated on consistently on the left and consistently on the right by any element of the set; invariant.
Chemistry.
(of a solution) containing one equivalent weight of the constituent in question in one liter of solution.
relating to an aliphatic hydrocarbon having a straight unbranched carbon chain, each carbon atom of which is joined to no more than two other carbon atoms.
of or relating to a neutral salt in which any replaceable hydroxyl groups or hydrogen atoms have been replaced by other groups or atoms, as sodium sulfate, Na 2 SO 4 .
noun
the standard or the common type.
the usual state, amount, level, etc., especially the average or mean.
Production may fall below normal.
Mathematics.
a perpendicular line or plane, especially one perpendicular to a tangent line of a curve, or a tangent plane of a surface, at the point of contact.
the portion of this perpendicular line included between its point of contact with the curve and the x- axis.
Normal
2[nawr-muhl]
noun
a city in central Illinois.
normal
/ nɔːˈmælɪtɪ, ˈnɔːməl /
adjective
usual; regular; common; typical
the normal way of doing it
the normal level
constituting a standard
if we take this as normal
psychol
being within certain limits of intelligence, educational success or ability, etc
conforming to the conventions of one's group
biology med (of laboratory animals) maintained in a natural state for purposes of comparison with animals treated with drugs, etc
N. chem (of a solution) containing a number of grams equal to the equivalent weight of the solute in each litre of solvent
chem denoting a straight-chain hydrocarbon: a normal alkane . Prefix: n-, e.g. n- octane
geometry another word for perpendicular
noun
the usual, average, or typical state, degree, form, etc
anything that is normal
geometry a line or plane perpendicular to another line or plane or to the tangent of a curved line or plane at the point of contact
Other Word Forms
- normality noun
- normalness noun
- antinormal adjective
- half-normal adjective
- hypernormal adjective
- nonnormal adjective
- overnormal adjective
- quasi-normal adjective
- quasi-normally adverb
- seminormal adjective
- seminormally adverb
- unnormal adjective
- unnormally adverb
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of normal1
Example Sentences
"I imagine that if the government changes on the other side of the border, things will go back to normal," Samson said.
“Once funding is restored, BLS will resume normal operations and notify the public of any changes to the news release schedule on the BLS release calendar,” the agency said in a statement to Barron’s.
"Being spotted in those kinds of places never gets normal."
“He has the hot women for Zohran. But where are the normal women?”
“Girl, listen. No shade. No shame. Do you. But that is not what you told me I was coming up here to do,” Zola says in a normal tone, calmly.
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