normal

Meanings

Adjective

• According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
• Usual, healthy; not sick or ill or unlike oneself.
• teaching teachers how to teach
• 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 .
• In the default position, set for the most frequently used route.
• Perpendicular to a tangent of a curve or derivative of a surface.

Noun

• A line or vector that is perpendicular to another line, surface, or plane.
• A person who is normal, who fits into mainstream society, as opposed to those who live alternative lifestyles.
• The usual state.

Related

Similar words

• conventional, customary, ordinary, standard, usual, regular, routine, average, expected, natural, typical, everyday, common, commonplace, general
• hale, healthy, well
• at right angles to, perpendicular, orthogonal
• Gaussian, standard normal

Opposite words

• unconventional, nonstandard, unusual, special
• ill, poorly , sick, unwell
• tangential
• reverse

Origin

• From Latin normālis ("made according to a carpenter's square; later: according to a rule"), from nōrma, of uncertain origin. The earliest use of the word in English was to mean "perpendicular; forming a right angle" like something normālis, but by Late Latin normālis had also come to mean "according to a rule", from which modern English senses of the word derive: