Word: normal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- Proto-Indo-European *-sḱéti Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₃sḱétider. Proto-Hellenic *gignṓskō Ancient Greek γιγνώσκω (gignṓskō) Proto-Indo-European *-mṓ Ancient Greek -μων (-mōn) Ancient Greek γνώμων (gnṓmōn)bor. Etruscanbor.? Latin norma Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin nōrmālisder. English normal 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. Pronunciation: /ˈnɔː.məl/, [ˈnɔː.mɫ̩], /ˈnoɹ.məl/, [ˈnoɹ.mɫ̩], /ˈnɔ.məl/ 1. According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern. Example: Organize the data into third normal form. Example: 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? 2. According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern. Example: A number whose individual digits in a given base representation follow a uniform distribution is said to be simply normal. Example: A number that is normal for every base b ≥ 2 is said to be absolutely normal. 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. Labels: usually 6. 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. Example: John is feeling normal again. 17. Usual, healthy; not sick or ill or unlike oneself. Labels: sarcastic, slang Example: I wrote a 30-page analysis of the show’s villain because I’m very normal about them. 18. Teaching teachers how to teach; teaching teachers the norms of education. Example: My grandmother attended Mankato State Normal School; my grandfather attended Illinois State Normal University. Example: 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 […] 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. Example: 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.