normal

Meaning

Adj

1. According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
2. According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
3. According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
4. According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
5. According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
6. (usually) According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
7. According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
8. According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
9. According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
10. According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
11. According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
12. According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
13. According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
14. According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
15. According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
16. Usual, healthy; not sick or ill or unlike oneself.
17. (sarcastic, slang) Usual, healthy; not sick or ill or unlike oneself.
18. Teaching teachers how to teach; teaching teachers the norms of education.
19. Of, relating to, or being a solution containing one equivalent weight of solute per litre of solution.
20. 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.
21. In which all parts of an object vibrate at the same frequency (a normal mode).
22. In the default position, set for the most frequently used route.
23. Perpendicular to a tangent of a curve or tangent plane of a surface.

Noun

1. (countable) A line or vector that is perpendicular to another line, surface, or plane.
2. (countable) A person who is healthy, normal, as opposed to one who is morbid.
3. (countable, slang) A person who is normal, who fits into mainstream society, as opposed to those who live alternative lifestyles.
4. (countable, uncountable) The usual state.

Synonyms

usual

regular

ordinary

common

natural

standard

typical

customary

perpendicular

general

right

average

habitual

sane

self-conjugate

conventional

distinguished

invariant

correct

real

orthogonal

as usual

proper

casual

vertical

sound-minded

daily

normal line

traditional

rule

usually

indifferent

convention

rated

regularity

ordinarily

commonplace

formula

off-peak

formal

nominal

physiological

commonly

normality

pattern

equivalent

equivalence

earthly

earnest

canonical

Translations

normal

normal

normal

normale

normaal

normal

normal

ordinaire

gewöhnlich

gewoon

normale

Normale

habituel

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈnɔːml̩/

Etymology

From Latin normālis (“made according to a carpenter's square; later: according to a rule”), from nōrma (“carpenter's square”), of uncertain origin; doublet of normale. The earliest meaning of the word in English was "perpendicular; forming a right angle" like something normālis (“made according to a carpenter's square”), but by Late Latin normālis had also come to mean "according to a rule", from which modern English senses of the word derive: in the 1800s, as people began to quantitatively study things like height, weight and blood pressure, the usual or most common values came to be called "normal", and by extension values regarded as healthy or desirable came to be called "normal" regardless of their usuality.

Sentences

One is the normal version and the other is a limited edition .

Its spectrum did not resemble that of any normal stars with typical stellar elements .

Normal heights are thus dependent upon the reference ellipsoid chosen .