Pronunciations (10)
-
/ˈnɔː.məl/
Pronunciation notes
- Received-Pronunciation
-
[ˈnɔː.mɫ̩]
Pronunciation notes
- Received-Pronunciation
-
/ˈnoɹ.məl/
Pronunciation notes
- Canada
- General-American
-
[ˈnoɹ.mɫ̩]
Pronunciation notes
- Canada
- General-American
-
/ˈnɔ.məl/
Pronunciation notes
- dialectal
-
[ˈnɔ.mɫ̩]
Pronunciation notes
- dialectal
-
/ˈnoː.məl/
Pronunciation notes
- Australia
- New-Zealand
-
[ˈnoː.mɫ̩]
Pronunciation notes
- Australia
- New-Zealand
-
ˈnɔːməl
Pronunciation notes
- GB
-
ˈnɔɹməl
Pronunciation notes
- US
Adjective
According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
- Examples
-
Organize the data into third normal form.
More examples (3)
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?
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.
More than a third of the new flats will be a mix of council rent and "affordable" rent – definitions vary but often this is taken to mean that their cost won't exceed 80% of the normal market rate.
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.
Usage- of a real number
- Examples
-
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.
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.
Usage- of a subgroup
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.
Usage- of a field extension of a field K
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.
Usage- usually
- of a distribution
- Synonyms
- Gaussianstandard normal
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.
Usage- of a family of continuous functions
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.
Usage- of a function from the ordinals to the ordinals
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.
Usage- of a matrix
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.
Usage- of a Hilbert space operator
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 kernel or cokernel of some morphism, respectively.
Usage- of a morphism
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 contains only normal morphisms.
Usage- of a category
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.
Usage- of a topology or topological space
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.
Usage- of a domain
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.
Usage- of a ring
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.
Usage- of a variety or scheme
Usual, healthy; not sick or ill or unlike oneself.
- Examples
-
John is feeling normal again.
Usual, healthy; not sick or ill or unlike oneself. Fervently interested in a subject; obsessed.
Usage- sarcastic
- Slang
- with “about”
- Synonyms
- Examples
-
I wrote a 30-page analysis of the show’s villain because I’m very normal about them.
Teaching teachers how to teach; teaching teachers the norms of education.
Usage- of a school
- Examples
-
My grandmother attended Mankato State Normal School; my grandfather attended Illinois State Normal University.
More examples (1)
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 […]
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).
Usage- of a mode in an oscillating system
In the default position, set for the most frequently used route.
Usage- of points
- Antonyms
Perpendicular to a tangent of a curve or tangent plane of a surface.
- Antonyms
- Examples
-
More examples (1)
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.
Noun
A line or vector that is perpendicular to another line, surface, or plane.
Usage- Countable
A person who is healthy, normal, as opposed to one who is morbid.
Usage- Countable
- Examples
-
Subjects were grouped as Group 1 and Group 2 according to VAI, and normals, overweights and obeses according to BMI.
A person who is normal, who fits into mainstream society, as opposed to those who live alternative lifestyles.
Usage- Countable
- Slang
The usual state.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
- Examples
-
I was quite ill for a while, but latterly seem to have returned to normal.
His workload is now back to normal.
More examples (2)
Heavy workload is the new normal.
Still, there was a hitch somewhere in the gathering that threw it out of normal.
Adjective
conforming with or constituting a norm or standard or level or type or social norm; not abnormal
- Antonyms
- Examples
-
serve wine at normal room temperature
normal diplomatic relations
More examples (4)
normal working hours
normal word order
normal curiosity
the normal course of events
in accordance with scientific laws
- Antonyms
being approximately average or within certain limits in e.g. intelligence and development
- Antonyms
- Examples
-
a perfectly normal child
of normal intelligence
More examples (1)
the most normal person I've ever met
forming a right angle
Noun
something regarded as a normative example
- Synonyms
- Broader terms
- Examples
-
the convention of not naming the main character
violence is the rule not the exception
More examples (1)
his formula for impressing visitors