Normal
['nɔːm(ə)l] or ['nɔrml]
Definition
(adj.) conforming with or constituting a norm or standard or level or type or social norm; not abnormal; 'serve wine at normal room temperature'; 'normal diplomatic relations'; 'normal working hours'; 'normal word order'; 'normal curiosity'; 'the normal course of events' .
(adj.) being approximately average or within certain limits in e.g. intelligence and development; 'a perfectly normal child'; 'of normal intelligence'; 'the most normal person I've ever met' .
(adj.) in accordance with scientific laws .
(adj.) forming a right angle .
Typist: Oliver--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) According to an established norm, rule, or principle; conformed to a type, standard, or regular form; performing the proper functions; not abnormal; regular; natural; analogical.
(a.) According to a square or rule; perpendicular; forming a right angle. Specifically: Of or pertaining to a normal.
(a.) Standard; original; exact; typical.
(a.) Denoting a solution of such strength that every cubic centimeter contains the same number of milligrams of the element in question as the number of its molecular weight.
(a.) Denoting certain hypothetical compounds, as acids from which the real acids are obtained by dehydration; thus, normal sulphuric acid and normal nitric acid are respectively S(OH)6, and N(OH)5.
(a.) Denoting that series of hydrocarbons in which no carbon atom is united with more than two other carbon atoms; as, normal pentane, hexane, etc. Cf. Iso-.
(a.) Any perpendicular.
(a.) A straight line or plane drawn from any point of a curve or surface so as to be perpendicular to the curve or surface at that point.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Regular, analogical, according to rule.[2]. Perpendicular, vertical, erect.
Typist: Stacey
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Regular, typical, usual, recognized, natural, ordinary
ANT:Abnormal, irregular, unnatural, exceptional, monstrous
Typist: Penelope
Examples
- Her normal manner among the heathfolk had that reticence which results from the consciousness of superior communicative power. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- It is a singular fact that electricity also so far exceeds the normal rate as to double in value and quantity of output and investment every five years. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Its weakness is the ease with which natural in the sense of normal is confused with the physical. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- And he had an abnormal share of youth's normal ambition to impress everybody. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Here it is the shift from deadliness to normal family life that is the strangest, Robert Jordan thought. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- These amount to about 700,000 tons per annum in normal times and at present about 900,000 tons per annum. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- But the notion of a spontaneous normal development of these activities is pure mythology. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It has been something more than a merely normal growth or natural development. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- In that case, since they are engaged, I encounter it to be perfectly normal. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- This is done very swiftly and exactly, its purpose being to hold the parts of the shoe in their normal position while the shoe is being completed. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The face of the child changes from its normal healthy hue to a brilliant red and then to ghastly shades. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- But as the old man--and before he was thirty years old he was affectionately so called by his laboratory associates--he is a normal, fun-loving, typical American. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It had returned into its normal state of bag and covering. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- That is only normal. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- For if you allow yourself the luxury of normal fear that fear will infect those who must work with you. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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