normal

English

/ˈnɔːməl/, /ˈnɔɹməl/

adj
Definitions
  • According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
  • Usual, healthy; not sick or ill or unlike oneself.
  • (education) teaching teachers how to teach to certain norms
  • (chemistry) Of, relating to, or being a solution containing one equivalent weight of solute per litre of solution.
  • (organic chemistry) 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.
  • (physics) In which all parts of an object vibrate at the same frequency see mode.
  • (rail transport) In the default position, set for the most frequently used route.
  • (geometry) Perpendicular to a tangent of a curve or derivative of a surface.

Etymology

Derived from Latin normālis (made according to a carpenter's square, later according to a rule).

Origin

Latin

normālis

Gloss

made according to a carpenter's square, later according to a rule

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