normal UK /ˈnɔː.məl/US /ˈnoɹ.məl/adjective 24noun 4forms 7phrases 1 adjective24 •usual, and following the rules or the regular way of thingsOrganize the data into third normal form. •Adhering to or being what is considered natural or regular in a particular field or context. •Usual, healthy; not sick or ill or unlike oneself.John is feeling normal again. •(slang) Fervently interested in a subject; obsessed.I wrote a 30-page analysis of the show’s villain because I’m very normal about them. •Perpendicular 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. •Which has a very specific bell curve shape; that is or has the qualities of a normal distribution. •Teaching teachers how to teach; teaching teachers the norms of education.My grandmother attended Mankato State Normal School; my grandfather attended Illinois State Normal University. •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. •In which all parts of an object vibrate at the same frequency (a normal mode). •In the default position, set for the most frequently used route. •With cosets which form a group. •Which commutes with its conjugate transpose. •Which commutes with its adjoint. •In which disjoint closed sets can be separated by disjoint neighborhoods. •In 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 whose individual digits in a given base representation follow a uniform distribution is said to be simply normal.A number that is normal for every base b ≥ 2 is said to be absolutely normal. •Integrally closed: equal its own integral closure in its field of fractions. •Such that all of its localizations at prime ideals are integrally closed domains. •Such that the local ring at every point is an integrally closed domain. •Which is the splitting field of a family of polynomials in K. •Which is the kernel or cokernel of some morphism, respectively. •Which contains only normal morphisms. •Which is pre-compact. •Which is strictly monotonically increasing and continuous with respect to the order topology. noun4 •The usual state.I was quite ill for a while, but latterly seem to have returned to normal.His workload is now back to normal. •A 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 •(slang) A person who is normal, who fits into mainstream society, as opposed to those who live alternative lifestyles. •A line or vector that is perpendicular to another line, surface, or plane. formsnormals · more normal · normaler · normaller · most normal · normalest · normallest Phrases with normal new normalA current prevailing situation which has emerged recently, that differs dramatically from the previous one and is expected to remain.
