normal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɔː.ml̩/
ipa: [ˈnɔː.mɫ̩]
ipa: /ˈnɔɹ.ml̩/
ipa: [ˈnɔɹ.mɫ̩]
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)məl
Forms: form: more normal
form: normaler
form: normaller
form: most normal
form: normalest
form: normallest
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.
Senses: examples: text: Organize the data into third normal form.
text: 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?
text: 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.
ref: 2014, Michael Rush, Politics & Society, Routledge, →ISBN, page 210:
glosses: According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
examples: text: A number whose individual digits in a given base representation follow a uniform distribution is said to be simply normal.
text: A number that is normal for every base b ≥ 2 is said to be absolutely normal.
topics: mathematics
number-theory
sciences
glosses: According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
Adhering to or being what is considered natural or regular in a particular field or context:
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.
raw_tags: of a real number
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
Adhering to or being what is considered natural or regular in a particular field or context:
With cosets which form a group.
raw_tags: of a subgroup
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
Adhering to or being what is considered natural or regular in a particular field or context:
Which is the splitting field of a family of polynomials in K.
raw_tags: of a field extension of a field K
topics: mathematics
probability-theory
sciences
statistics
glosses: According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
Adhering to or being what is considered natural or regular in a particular field or context:
Which has a very specific bell curve shape; that is or has the qualities of a normal distribution.
raw_tags: of a distribution
topics: mathematics
probability-theory
sciences
statistics
glosses: According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
Adhering to or being what is considered natural or regular in a particular field or context:
Which has a normal distribution; which is associated with a random variable that has a normal distribution.
raw_tags: of a random variable
topics: complex-analysis
mathematics
sciences
glosses: According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
Adhering to or being what is considered natural or regular in a particular field or context:
Which is pre-compact.
raw_tags: of a family of continuous functions
topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
glosses: According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
Adhering to or being what is considered natural or regular in a particular field or context:
Which is strictly monotonically increasing and continuous with respect to the order topology.
raw_tags: of a function from the ordinals to the ordinals
topics: linear-algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
Adhering to or being what is considered natural or regular in a particular field or context:
Which commutes with its conjugate transpose.
raw_tags: of a matrix
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
Adhering to or being what is considered natural or regular in a particular field or context:
Which commutes with its adjoint.
qualifier: functional analysis
raw_tags: of a Hilbert space operator
topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
Adhering to or being what is considered natural or regular in a particular field or context:
Being (as a morphism) or containing (as a category) only normal epimorphism(s) or monomorphism(s), that is, those which are the kernel or cokernel of some morphism, respectively.
topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
Adhering to or being what is considered natural or regular in a particular field or context:
In which disjoint closed sets can be separated by disjoint neighborhoods.
raw_tags: of a topology or topological space
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
Adhering to or being what is considered natural or regular in a particular field or context:
Integrally closed: equal its own integral closure in its field of fractions.
qualifier: commutative algebra
raw_tags: of a domain
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
Adhering to or being what is considered natural or regular in a particular field or context:
Such that all of its localizations at prime ideals are integrally closed domains.
qualifier: commutative algebra
raw_tags: of a ring
topics: algebraic-geometry
geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
Adhering to or being what is considered natural or regular in a particular field or context:
Such that the local ring at every point is an integrally closed domain.
raw_tags: of a variety or scheme
examples: text: John is feeling normal again.
glosses: Usual, healthy; not sick or ill or unlike oneself.
examples: text: I wrote a 30-page analysis of the show’s villain because I’m very normal about them.
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Usual, healthy; not sick or ill or unlike oneself.
Fervently interested in a subject; obsessed.
raw_tags: with “about”
examples: text: My grandmother attended Mankato State Normal School; my grandfather attended Illinois State Normal University.
text: 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 […]
ref: 1928, Western Montana College, Western Montana College of Education, Catalogue of the Montana State Normal College, page 10:
topics: education
glosses: Teaching teachers how to teach; teaching teachers the norms of education.
raw_tags: of a school
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of, relating to, or being a solution containing one equivalent weight of solute per litre of solution.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: 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.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: In which all parts of an object vibrate at the same frequency (a normal mode).
raw_tags: of a mode in an oscillating system
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: In the default position, set for the most frequently used route.
raw_tags: of points
examples: text: 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.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Perpendicular to a tangent of a curve or tangent plane of a surface.
Synonyms: sense: usual
word: conventional
sense: usual
word: customary
sense: usual
word: ordinary
sense: usual
word: standard
sense: usual
word: usual
sense: usual
word: regular
sense: usual
word: routine
sense: usual
word: average
sense: usual
word: expected
sense: usual
word: natural
sense: usual
word: typical
sense: usual
word: everyday
sense: usual
word: common
sense: usual
word: commonplace
sense: usual
word: general
sense: healthy
word: hale
sense: healthy
word: healthy
sense: healthy
word: well
sense: perpendicular
word: at right angle to
sense: perpendicular
word: perpendicular
sense: perpendicular
word: orthogonal
topics: statistics
mathematics
sciences
word: Gaussian
topics: statistics
mathematics
sciences
word: standard normal
word: banal
word: basic
word: bog-standard
word: common-or-garden
word: congruent
word: consistent
word: garden variety
word: mundane
word: normal
word: plain
word: run-of-the-mill
word: true
word: uniform
word: unexceptional
word: unremarkable
word: unstrange
word: vulgar
Hyponyms: word: boring
word: familiar
word: orthodox
word: seasonal
word: standard issue
Derived terms: abnormal
algebraic normal form
antinormal
Backus normal form
binormal
Boyce-Codd normal form
canonical conjunctive normal form
canonical disjunctive normal form
centinormal
clausal normal form
conjunctive normal form
conormal
Covid normal
decanormal
decinormal
denormal
disjunctive normal form
Earth-normal
equinormal
extranormal
fifth normal form
first normal form
fourth normal form
have a normal one
heteronormal
hypernormal
hyponormal
immunonormal
lognormal
log-normal distribution
malnormal
millinormal
multinormal
new normal
nonnormal
normal basis
normalcy
normal depth
normaldom
normal extension
normalfag
normal fault
normal force
normal form
normal form game
normal for Norfolk
normal good
normal histology
normalhood
normal hydrogen
normal hydrogen electrode
normalise
normalize
normalish
Normal Island
normalism
normalist
normality
normalization
normal lens
normallo
normally
normal mode
normalness
normaloid
normal pause
normalphobia
normalphobic
normal potential
normal profit
normal random variable
normal saline
normal school
normal space
normal subgroup
normal time
normal vector
normalwise
norman
normie
normophile
orthonormal
paranormal
perinormal
polynormal
postnormal
prenex normal form
preternormal
pronormal
pseudonormal
quasinormal
ring sum normal form
second normal form
seminormal
standard normal distribution
standard normal random variable
subnormal
supernormal
supranormal
surface normal
third normal form
transnormal
ultranormal
unnormal
Related terms: word: norm
word: no great shakes
word: according to Hoyle
word: by the book
word: by the numbers
word: shipshape and Bristol fashion
word: to the letter
word: normalization
word: normalize
word: normalized
word: normcore
word: normie
word: agreeable
word: inevitable
word: intermediate
word: moderate
word: normally
word: normality