normal

comparative more normal · colloquial comparative normaler · colloquial comparative normaller · colloquial superlative most normal · colloquial superlative normalest · colloquial superlative normallest

1. According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.

   Organize the data into third normal form.

   3 more examples

   2007, Steven Wilson, "Normal", Porcupine Tree, Nil Recurring. Prescription drugs, they help me through the day And that restraining order keeps me well at bay And what's normal now, anyway?

   In other words, although the legal processes were observed, it was not a normal transfer of power within each of the ruling communist parties. […] Demonstrations of the sort that brought about the collapse of the communist regimes in Eastern Europe were not normal, and where attempts had previously been made to hold them, they were invariably suppressed by force.

   2014, Michael Rush, Politics & Society, Routledge, →ISBN, page 210

   More than a third of the new flats will be a mix of council rent and "affordable" rent – definitions vary but often this is taken to mean that their cost won't exceed 80% of the normal market rate.

   2022 October 29, Felix Bazalgette, “'It was more than a pub' – the story of five boozers forced to call last orders”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Feb 2023

   Synonyms: customary, ordinary, standard, typical, usual · Antonyms: unconventional, nonstandard, unusual, special

   1. mathematicsIn whose representation in a given base b ≥ 2, for every positive integer n, the bⁿ possible strings of n digits follow a uniform distribution.

      A number that is normal for every base b ≥ 2 is said to be absolutely normal.

      1 more example

      A number whose individual digits in a given base representation follow a uniform distribution is said to be simply normal.

      Synonyms: customary, ordinary, standard, typical, usual · Antonyms: unconventional, nonstandard, unusual, special

   2. algebraWith cosets which form a group.

      Synonyms: customary, ordinary, standard, typical, usual · Antonyms: unconventional, nonstandard, unusual, special

   3. algebraWhich is the splitting field of a family of polynomials in K.

      Synonyms: customary, ordinary, standard, typical, usual · Antonyms: unconventional, nonstandard, unusual, special

   4. usuallyrandom variablemathematicsWhich has a very specific bell curve shape; that is or has the qualities of a normal distribution.

      Synonyms: customary, ordinary, standard, typical, usual, Gaussian, standard normal · Antonyms: unconventional, nonstandard, unusual, special

   5. complex analysisWhich is pre-compact.

      Synonyms: customary, ordinary, standard, typical, usual · Antonyms: unconventional, nonstandard, unusual, special

   6. mathematicsWhich is strictly monotonically increasing and continuous with respect to the order topology.

      Synonyms: customary, ordinary, standard, typical, usual · Antonyms: unconventional, nonstandard, unusual, special

   7. linear algebraWhich commutes with its conjugate transpose.

      Synonyms: customary, ordinary, standard, typical, usual · Antonyms: unconventional, nonstandard, unusual, special

   8. functional analysismathematicsWhich commutes with its adjoint.

      Synonyms: customary, ordinary, standard, typical, usual · Antonyms: unconventional, nonstandard, unusual, special

   9. category theoryWhich is the kernel or cokernel of some morphism, respectively.

      Synonyms: customary, ordinary, standard, typical, usual · Antonyms: unconventional, nonstandard, unusual, special

   10. category theoryWhich contains only normal morphisms.

       Synonyms: customary, ordinary, standard, typical, usual · Antonyms: unconventional, nonstandard, unusual, special

   11. mathematicsIn which disjoint closed sets can be separated by disjoint neighborhoods.

       Synonyms: customary, ordinary, standard, typical, usual · Antonyms: unconventional, nonstandard, unusual, special

   12. commutative algebramathematicsIntegrally closed: equal its own integral closure in its field of fractions.

       Synonyms: customary, ordinary, standard, typical, usual · Antonyms: unconventional, nonstandard, unusual, special

   13. commutative algebramathematicsSuch that all of its localizations at prime ideals are integrally closed domains.

       Synonyms: customary, ordinary, standard, typical, usual · Antonyms: unconventional, nonstandard, unusual, special

   14. algebraic geometrySuch that the local ring at every point is an integrally closed domain.

       Synonyms: customary, ordinary, standard, typical, usual · Antonyms: unconventional, nonstandard, unusual, special

2. Usual, healthy; not sick or ill or unlike oneself.

   John is feeling normal again.

   Synonyms: hale, healthy, well, all oak and iron bound, buxom, fit, freck, hail · Antonyms: ill, poorly, sick, unwell, ailing, bad, crank, crook

   1. sarcasticslanglifestyleFervently interested in a subject; obsessed.

      I wrote a 30-page analysis of the show’s villain because I’m very normal about them.

      Synonyms: hale, healthy, well, all oak and iron bound, buxom, fit, freck, hail · Antonyms: ill, poorly, sick, unwell, ailing, bad, crank, crook

3. educationTeaching teachers how to teach; teaching teachers the norms of education.

   My grandmother attended Mankato State Normal School; my grandfather attended Illinois State Normal University.

   1 more example

   PURPOSE AND SCOPE[:] The State Normal College prepares teachers for the public schools of Montana. It accomplishes its work through professional courses, directed observation of expert teaching, and […]

   1928, Western Montana College, Western Montana College of Education, Catalogue of the Montana State Normal College, page 10

4. chemistryOf, relating to, or being a solution containing one equivalent weight of solute per litre of solution.
5. chemistryDescribing 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.
6. natural sciencesIn which all parts of an object vibrate at the same frequency (a normal mode).
7. rail transportIn the default position, set for the most frequently used route.

   Antonyms: reverse

8. geometryPerpendicular to a tangent of a curve or tangent plane of a surface.

   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: at right angles to, perpendicular, orthogonal · Antonyms: tangential

plural normals

1. countablegeometryA line or vector that is perpendicular to another line, surface, or plane.
2. countablemedicineA person who is healthy, normal, as opposed to one who is morbid.

   Subjects were grouped as Group 1 and Group 2 according to VAI, and normals, overweights and obeses according to BMI.

   2014, Ahmet Celik, Edibe Saricicek, Vahap Saricicek, Elif Sahin, Gokhan Ozdemir, Metin Kilinc, Ayten Oguz, Relation between the new anthropometric obesity parameters and inflammatory markers in healthy adult men, SCIRJ

3. countableslangA person who is normal, who fits into mainstream society, as opposed to those who live alternative lifestyles.
4. countableuncountableThe usual state.

   Heavy workload is the new normal.

   3 more examples

   I was quite ill for a while, but latterly seem to have returned to normal.

   His workload is now back to normal.

   Still, there was a hitch somewhere in the gathering that threw it out of normal.

   1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 269