normal
/ˈnɔːməl/ · noun
Meaning
- A line or vector that is perpendicular to another line, surface, or plane.
- A person who is normal, who fits into mainstream society, as opposed to those who live alternative lifestyles.
- The usual state.
- According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
- Usual, healthy; not sick or ill or unlike oneself.
- (of a school) teaching teachers how to teach (to certain norms)
- Of, relating to, or being a solution containing one equivalent weight of solute per litre of solution.
- 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.
- (of a mode in an oscillating system) In which all parts of an object vibrate at the same frequency (see normal mode).
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