English Explanatory Dictionary

normal

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
  2. Adhering to or being what is considered natural or regular in a particular field or context:
  3. 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.
  4. With cosets which form a group.
  5. Which is the splitting field of a family of polynomials in K.
  6. Which has a very specific bell curve shape; that is or has the qualities of a normal distribution.
  7. Which is pre-compact.
  8. Which is strictly monotonically increasing and continuous with respect to the order topology.
  9. Which commutes with its conjugate transpose.
  10. Which commutes with its adjoint.
  11. Which is the kernel or cokernel of some morphism, respectively.
  12. Which contains only normal morphisms.
noun
  1. A line or vector that is perpendicular to another line, surface, or plane.
  2. A person who is healthy, normal, as opposed to one who is morbid.
  3. A person who is normal, who fits into mainstream society, as opposed to those who live alternative lifestyles.
  4. The usual state.

Pronunciation

/ˈnɔː.məl/ [ˈnɔː.mɫ̩] /ˈnoɹ.məl/ [ˈnoɹ.mɫ̩] En-us-normal.ogg /ˈnɔ.məl/ [ˈnɔ.mɫ̩] /ˈnoː.məl/ [ˈnoː.mɫ̩]

Word forms

normal more normal normaler normaller most normal normalest normallest normals

Etymology

Etymology tree 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.

Synonyms

average medial basic bog-standard common commonplace common-and-garden common-or-garden congruent consistent conventional customary everyday expected garden variety improminent mundane natural normal ordinary par for the course plain plain vanilla quotidian regular routine run-of-the-mill standard standard issue typical unexceptional unremarkable unstrange usual vulgar wakeaday workaday Gaussian standard normal hale healthy well all oak and iron bound buxom fit hail hale and hearty in the pink of health lusty sound sound as a barrel sound as a bell whole fanatical at right angles to perpendicular orthogonal mainstreamer

Antonyms

conspicuous different egregious exceptional historic interesting memorable notable noteworthy outstanding remarkable special strange unique unconventional nonstandard unusual ill poorly sick unwell ailing bad crank crook green about the gills icky indisposed infirm like death warmed over lousy maladive mawkish off one's feed on the Pat and Mick out of sorts Pat and Mick punk puny queer ropy rough sickish sickly sick as a dog sick as a parrot tumid under the weather unhealthy valetudinarian valetudinary reverse tangential

Related words

norm no great shakes according to Hoyle by the book by the numbers shipshape and Bristol fashion to the letter normalization normalize normalized normcore normie agreeable inevitable intermediate moderate normally normality

Derived words

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

Translations

Arabic: عَادِيّ Arabic: طَبِيعِيّ Belarusian: нарма́льны Bulgarian: нормален Bulgarian: обикновен Bulgarian: здрав Catalan: normal Chinese Cantonese: 正常 Chinese Mandarin: 正常 Chinese Mandarin: 通常 Chinese Mandarin: 常態 /常态 Czech: normální Danish: normal Danish: almindelig Danish: rask Dutch: normaal Dutch: normale Dutch: gewoon Dutch: gewone Estonian: normaalne Estonian: harilik Finnish: säännönmukainen Finnish: säännöllinen Finnish: normaali French: normal French: ordinaire Galician: normal German: normal Greek: φυσιολογικός Hebrew: נורמלי Hebrew: רגיל Hungarian: rendes Hungarian: normál Hungarian: normális Hungarian: szokványos Hungarian: szokásos Hungarian: megszokott Hungarian: mindennapos Hungarian: átlagos Hungarian: jól Ido: normala Italian: normale Japanese: 正常 Japanese: 通常 Japanese: 常態 Japanese: 普通 Latin: normalis Latvian: normāls Latvian: parasts Latvian: ierasts Latvian: pierasts Macedonian: нормален Maltese: normali Khiamniungan Naga: vâu Old English: ġewunelīċ Persian: نرمال Polish: normalny Polish: zwykły Polish: zwyczajny Portuguese: normal Romanian: normal Romanian: obișnuit Romanian: uzual Russian: норма́льный Russian: обыкнове́нный Russian: обы́чный Spanish: normal Spanish: bien Spanish: sano Swedish: normal Thai: ธรรมดา Thai: ปกติ Thai: ปรกติ Ukrainian: норма́льний Welsh: arferol Yiddish: נאָרמאַל Armenian: հասարակ Armenian: նորմալ Esperanto: normala Haitian Creole: nòmal
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