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normal

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[ nawr-muhl ]

adjective

  1. conforming to the standard or the common type; usual; not abnormal; regular; natural.
  2. serving to establish a standard.
  3. Psychology.
    1. approximately average in any psychological trait, as intelligence, personality, or emotional adjustment.
    2. free from any mental disorder; sane.
  4. Biology, Medicine/Medical.
    1. free from any infection or other form of disease or malformation, or from experimental therapy or manipulation.
    2. of natural occurrence.
  5. Mathematics.
    1. being at right angles, as a line; perpendicular.
    2. of the nature of or relating to a mathematical normal.
    3. (of an orthogonal system of real functions) defined so that the integral of the square of the absolute value of any function is 1.
    4. (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.
    5. (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.
  6. Chemistry.
    1. (of a solution) containing one equivalent weight of the constituent in question in one liter of solution.
    2. 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.
    3. of or relating to a neutral salt in which any replaceable hydroxyl groups or hydrogen atoms have been replaced by other groups or atoms, as sodium sulfate, Na 2 SO 4 .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

  1. the standard or the common type.
  2. the usual state, amount, level, etc., especially the average or mean:

    Production may fall below normal.

  3. Mathematics.
    1. 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.
    2. the portion of this perpendicular line included between its point of contact with the curve and the x- axis.

Normal

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[ nawr-muhl ]

noun

  1. a city in central Illinois.

normal

/ nɔːˈmælɪtɪ; ˈnɔːməl /

adjective

  1. usual; regular; common; typical

    the normal level

    the normal way of doing it

  2. constituting a standard

    if we take this as normal

  3. psychol
    1. being within certain limits of intelligence, educational success or ability, etc
    2. conforming to the conventions of one's group
  4. biology med (of laboratory animals) maintained in a natural state for purposes of comparison with animals treated with drugs, etc
  5. chem (of a solution) containing a number of grams equal to the equivalent weight of the solute in each litre of solvent N
  6. chem denoting a straight-chain hydrocarbon: a normal alkane . Prefix: n-, e.g. n- octane
  7. geometry another word for perpendicular
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. the usual, average, or typical state, degree, form, etc
  2. anything that is normal
  3. 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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of normal1

First recorded in 1520–30; from Latin Դǰ “made according to a carpenter's square,” equivalent to norm(a) ( norm ) + - adjective suffix; -al 1
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of normal1

C16: from Latin Դǰ conforming to the carpenter's square, from norma norm
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Example Sentences

His victim said she wanted to "get back to normal but can't because of what happened".

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"These are not normal times in our nation. And they should not be treated as such in the United States Senate."

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He said the players fell short of his "high standards" but then played down the situation by adding it was "nothing" and it was "normal for the players to be relaxed" during the international break.

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His daughter is in sixth grade and “was doing things that normal kids do at that age,” he said.

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A Cabinet Office spokesman said: "We do not comment on speculation on honours as a matter of longstanding principle. Any updates would be announced in the normal way."

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