normal

  • (noun): A line or vector that is perpendicular to another line, surface, or plane.
  • (noun): A person who is normal, who fits into mainstream society, as opposed to those who live alternative lifestyles.
  • (noun): The usual state.
  • (adjective): According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
  • (adjective): Usual, healthy; not sick or ill or unlike oneself.
  • (adjective): (of a school) teaching teachers how to teach (to certain norms)
  • (adjective): Of, relating to, or being a solution containing one equivalent weight of solute per litre of solution.
  • (adjective): 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.
  • (adjective): (of a mode in an oscillating system) In which all parts of an object vibrate at the same frequency (see normal mode).
  • (adjective): (of points) In the default position, set for the most frequently used route.
  • (adjective): Perpendicular to a tangent of a curve or derivative of a surface.
  • Heavy workload is the new normal.
  • Organize the data into third normal form.
  • John is feeling normal again.
  • My grandmother attended Mankato State Normal School.
  • The interior normal vector of an ideal perfect sphere will always point toward the center, and the exterior normal vector directly away, and both will always be co-linear with the ray whose' tip ends at the point of intersection, which is the intersection of all three sets of points.