normal en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- [ˈnoɹ.mɫ̩] (Canada, General-American)
- [ˈnɔ.mɫ̩] (dialectal) of the US
- /ˈnoː.məl/ (Australia, New-Zealand)
- (General-American) audio
- /ˈnɔ.məl/ (dialectal) of the US
- /ˈnoɹ.məl/ (Canada, General-American)
- [ˈnɔː.mɫ̩] (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˈnɔː.məl/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- [ˈnoː.mɫ̩] (Australia, New-Zealand)
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- Proto-Indo-European *-sḱéti Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₃sḱétider. Proto-Hellenic *gignṓskō Ancient Greek γιγνώσκω (gignṓskō) Proto-Indo-European *-mṓ Ancient Greek -μων (-mōn) Ancient Greek γνώμων (gnṓmōn)bor. Etruscanbor.? Latin norma Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? 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; equivalent to norm + -al, 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.
Meanings
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According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
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?
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.
2022 October 29, Felix Bazalgette, “'It was more than a pub' – the story of five boozers forced to call last orders”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Feb 2023: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.
2014, Michael Rush, Politics & Society, Routledge, →ISBN, page 210:Organize the data into third normal form.
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(of a real number) 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.
A number that is normal for every base b ≥ 2 is said to be absolutely normal.
A number whose individual digits in a given base representation follow a uniform distribution is said to be simply normal.
- (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: ▸ With cosets which form a group.
- (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 is the splitting field of a family of polynomials in K.
- (of a distribution, qualifier:random variable, usually) 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.
- (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 pre-compact.
- (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 is strictly monotonically increasing and continuous with respect to the order topology.
- (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 conjugate transpose.
- (of a Hilbert space operator, qualifier:functional analysis) 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.
- (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 is the kernel or cokernel of some morphism, respectively.
- (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: ▸ Which contains only normal morphisms.
- (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: ▸ In which disjoint closed sets can be separated by disjoint neighborhoods.
- (of a domain, qualifier:commutative algebra) 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.
- (of a ring, qualifier:commutative algebra) 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.
- (of a variety or scheme) 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.
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Usual, healthy; not sick or ill or unlike oneself.
John is feeling normal again.
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(sarcastic, slang, with “about”) Usual, healthy; not sick or ill or unlike oneself. ▸ Fervently interested in a subject; obsessed.
I wrote a 30-page analysis of the show’s villain because I’m very normal about them.
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(of a school) Teaching teachers how to teach; teaching teachers the norms of education.
My grandmother attended Mankato State Normal School; my grandfather attended Illinois State Normal University.
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 […]
1928, Western Montana College, Western Montana College of Education, Catalogue of the Montana State Normal College, page 10:
- 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.
- (of a mode in an oscillating system) In which all parts of an object vibrate at the same frequency (a normal mode).
- (of points) In the default position, set for the most frequently used route.
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Perpendicular to a tangent of a curve or tangent plane of a surface.
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.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more normal | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| normallest | Degree=Sup | colloquial | lexicographic |
| normaller | Degree=Cmp | colloquial | lexicographic |
| most normal | Degree=Sup | colloquial | lexicographic |
| normalest | Degree=Sup | colloquial | lexicographic |
| normaler | Degree=Cmp | colloquial | lexicographic |
Antonyms
nonstandard · exceptional · ailing · sick · unconventional · special · unusual · strange · poorly · sickish · valetudinarian · sickly · sickish · tumid · unusual · poorly · historic · special · unconventional · nonstandard · icky · noteworthy · on the Pat and Mick · unconventional · nonstandard · egregious · unwell · outstanding · unconventional · unconventional · tangential · nonstandard · reverse · sick as a dog · unusual · on the Pat and Mick · unusual · nonstandard · unhealthy · unusual · special · unusual · unconventional · green about the gills · special · queer · different · unconventional · ropy · crank · special · special · off one's feed · icky · sick · unusual · remarkable · unconventional · unconventional · sick as a dog · bad · sickly · rough · nonstandard · memorable · nonstandard · puny · bad · nonstandard · punk · special · conspicuous · puny · nonstandard · nonstandard · poorly · like death warmed over · ill · special · nonstandard · unwell · mawkish · unconventional · sick · unique · tumid · lousy · valetudinarian · out of sorts · ill · maladive · unconventional · valetudinary · like death warmed over · crank · unusual · unusual · sick as a parrot · special · ill · unusual · infirm · nonstandard · ropy · under the weather · under the weather · sick as a parrot · mawkish · out of sorts · special · crook · unusual · unconventional · interesting · nonstandard · infirm · ailing · unwell · unconventional · Pat and Mick · sick · rough · unusual · nonstandard · off one's feed · notable · indisposed · Pat and Mick · queer · ill · punk · nonstandard · unusual · special · lousy · special · special · indisposed · poorly · green about the gills · special · unhealthy · valetudinary · unconventional · special · unusual · crook · unusual · special · unconventional · unwell · maladive
Deriveds
ultranormal · normal mode · normalphobic · normally · malnormal · normalfag · transnormal · normal vector · normal depth · normal force · normalish · Covid normal · postnormal · equinormal · prenex normal form · quasinormal · normal good · clausal normal form · normalhood · normalwise · first normal form · normal form game · decinormal · normalism · supernormal · perinormal · standard normal distribution · normal form · log-normal distribution · hyponormal · normal time · normality · normal fault · unnormal · denormal · new normal · Normal Island · normalness · fourth normal form · third normal form · normalise · second normal form · normal for Norfolk · nonnormal · ring sum normal form · supranormal · Boyce-Codd normal form · orthonormal · antinormal · normal extension · algebraic normal form · subnormal · normalphobia · pronormal · seminormal · normaloid · normalization · abnormal · have a normal one · canonical disjunctive normal form · heteronormal · normal random variable · extranormal · surface normal · normaldom · normal hydrogen · normophile · fifth normal form · pseudonormal · Earth-normal · normal space · normal basis · conormal · normal hydrogen electrode · paranormal · lognormal · decanormal · normal profit · normal saline · immunonormal · normie · normalize · normalist · normal school · canonical conjunctive normal form · polynormal · norman · normal histology · normal pause · normallo · normalcy · conjunctive normal form · preternormal · binormal · centinormal · disjunctive normal form · Backus normal form · standard normal random variable · multinormal · millinormal · normal lens · normal potential · hypernormal · normal subgroup
Hyponyms
boring · familiar · bare-bones · conformant · orthodox
Relateds
normcore · by the book · to the letter · inevitable · agreeable · mainstreamer · normalized · by the numbers · normalization · shipshape and Bristol fashion · normality · normally · standard thing · no great shakes · intermediate · norm · according to Hoyle · moderate · normalize · normie
Synonyms
ordinary · fit · plain · usual · customary · hail · buxom · ordinary · typical · standard · usual · customary · ordinary · lusty · usual · well · customary · sound as a bell · standard · hale · sound as a bell · unremarkable · typical · sound · customary · usual · usual · regular · run-of-the-mill · ordinary · hale · typical · customary · usual · medial · in the pink of health · typical · Gaussian · customary · fit · typical · customary · standard · hale · ordinary · ordinary · healthy · common-or-garden · ordinary · typical · sound · usual · customary · ordinary · typical · well · standard issue · usual · bog-standard · orthogonal · wakeaday · usual · sound as a barrel · ordinary · common-and-garden · standard · plain vanilla · healthy · improminent · customary · usual · normal · customary · everyday · hail · usual · standard · unexceptional · par for the course · standard normal · ordinary · normal · ordinary · usual · typical · typical · hale and hearty · standard · healthy · standard · typical · consistent · typical · at right angles to · usual · average · all oak and iron bound · hale · healthy · routine · ordinary · customary · expected · customary · garden variety · par · mundane · standard · conventional · normal · freck · whole · standard · hale and hearty · well · standard · freck · ordinary · standard · commonplace · customary · vulgar · buxom · typical · whole · customary · standard · standard · customary · typical · basic · typical · ordinary · ordinary · typical · customary · all oak and iron bound · congruent · typical · ordinary · sound as a barrel · perpendicular · well · standard · natural · workaday · standard · lusty · fanatical · quotidian · common · standard · usual · usual · usual · unstrange · in the pink of health
Translations (157)
nl normale (usual, ordinary) · no normal (usual, ordinary) · ja 正常 (according to norms or rules) · yi נאָרמאַל (according to norms or rules) · ro normal (usual, ordinary) · la normalis (according to norms or rules) · ca normal (usual, ordinary) · nl gewone (usual, ordinary) · ca normal (rail transport, of points: in the default position) · bg обикновен (usual, ordinary) · lv parasts (according to norms or rules) · cmn 正常 (usual, ordinary) · nl gewoon (usual, ordinary) · lv pierasts (usual, ordinary) · mi pūnoa (usual, ordinary) · th ปกติ (according to norms or rules) · ar طَبِيعِيّ (usual, ordinary) · es sano (healthy; not sick or ill) · pl normalny (usual, ordinary) · fr normal (pertaining to a school to teach teachers how to teach) · hi ठीक (usual, ordinary) · uk норма́льний (according to norms or rules) · ja 通常 (according to norms or rules) · nl normaal (pertaining to a school to teach teachers how to teach) · gl normal (according to norms or rules) · bo རྒྱུན་འཇགས (usual, ordinary) · th ธรรมดา (according to norms or rules) · he רגיל (usual, ordinary) · fa نرمال (healthy; not sick or ill) · ru норма́льный (usual, ordinary) · hy նորմալ (usual, ordinary) · fi säännöllinen (usual, ordinary) · id normal (usual, ordinary) · mt normali (according to norms or rules) · hu átlagos (usual, ordinary) · sv normal (according to norms or rules) · ar عَادِيّ (according to norms or rules) · no ordinær (usual, ordinary) · bo རྒྱུན་ཚུགས (usual, ordinary) · nl normaal (usual, ordinary) · et normaalne (according to norms or rules) · cmn 師範 /师范 (pertaining to a school to teach teachers how to teach) · fr normal (according to norms or rules) · hi साधारण (usual, ordinary) · pl normalny (according to norms or rules) · mk нормален (according to norms or rules) · de normal (according to norms or rules) · es normal (usual, ordinary) · ne ठीक (usual, ordinary) · lv parasts (usual, ordinary) · th ปกติ (usual, ordinary) · hu normális (according to norms or rules) · pl zwykły (usual, ordinary) · hu megszokott (usual, ordinary) · cmn 正常 (according to norms or rules) · ja 普通 (usual, ordinary) · ru норма́льный (according to norms or rules) · pl normalny (healthy; not sick or ill) · pl zwyczajny (usual, ordinary) · id sehat (healthy; not sick or ill) · lv ierasts (usual, ordinary) · vi bình thường (usual, ordinary) · kix vâu (according to norms or rules) · es normal (healthy; not sick or ill) · ro normal (according to norms or rules) · hy նորմալ (healthy; not sick or ill) · is eðlilegur (usual, ordinary) · de normal (usual, ordinary) · eo normala (usual, ordinary) · sv normal (healthy; not sick or ill) · bg нормален (healthy; not sick or ill) · ga gnách (usual, ordinary) · he נורמלי (according to norms or rules) · el φυσιολογικός (according to norms or rules) · hy հասարակ (usual, ordinary) · ca normal (according to norms or rules) · cs normální (according to norms or rules) · da rask (healthy; not sick or ill) · bg нормален (according to norms or rules) · es bien (healthy; not sick or ill) · hu szokványos (usual, ordinary) · lv normāls (according to norms or rules) · kix vâu (according to norms or rules) · et harilik (usual, ordinary) · da almindelig (according to norms or rules) · ro obișnuit (usual, ordinary) · ang ġewunelīċ (according to norms or rules) · is venjulegur (usual, ordinary) · cmn 通常 (according to norms or rules) · hu rendes (according to norms or rules) · bo རྒྱུན་གཏན (usual, ordinary) · tr olağan (usual, ordinary) · cy arferol (according to norms or rules) · ga gnáth- (usual, ordinary) · fa نرمال (according to norms or rules) · no alminnelig (usual, ordinary) · cs normální (usual, ordinary) · th ปรกติ (usual, ordinary) · sv normal (usual, ordinary) · fi säännönmukainen (according to norms or rules) · ur سادھارن (usual, ordinary) · bo རྒྱུན་ཆགས (usual, ordinary) · nl normaal (according to norms or rules) · ro uzual (usual, ordinary) · io normala (according to norms or rules) · gl normal (usual, ordinary) · no vanlig (usual, ordinary) · es normal (according to norms or rules) · fa نرمال (usual, ordinary) · id normal (healthy; not sick or ill) · hu rendes (usual, ordinary) · ca normal (healthy; not sick or ill) · id biasa (usual, ordinary) · lv normāls (usual, ordinary) · yue 正常 (according to norms or rules) · ru обы́чный (usual, ordinary) · it normale (according to norms or rules) · hu szokásos (usual, ordinary) · fi normaali (healthy; not sick or ill) · be нарма́льны (usual, ordinary) · th ปรกติ (according to norms or rules) · ga normálta (usual, ordinary) · ru обыкнове́нный (usual, ordinary) · pon unsek (usual, ordinary) · el φυσιολογικός (usual, ordinary) · be нарма́льны (according to norms or rules) · hu jól (healthy; not sick or ill) · ko 정상의 (usual, ordinary) · pon unsek (according to norms or rules) · ar عَادِيّ (usual, ordinary) · cs normální (healthy; not sick or ill) · yi נאָרמאַל (usual, ordinary) · hu tanárképző (pertaining to a school to teach teachers how to teach) · bg здрав (healthy; not sick or ill) · kk қалыпты (usual, ordinary) · fr ordinaire (usual, ordinary) · uk норма́льний (usual, ordinary) · ht nòmal (usual, ordinary) · ne साधारण (usual, ordinary) · pt normal (usual, ordinary) · fr normal (usual, ordinary) · bo རྒྱུན་འཛུགས (usual, ordinary) · hu normál (according to norms or rules) · da normal (according to norms or rules) · ja 常態 (according to norms or rules) · ur معمولی (usual, ordinary) · kix vâu (usual, ordinary) · ur عام (usual, ordinary) · hu mindennapos (usual, ordinary) · pt normal (according to norms or rules) · th ธรรมดา (usual, ordinary) · it normale (usual, ordinary) · sa सामान्य (usual, ordinary) · km ធម្មតា (usual, ordinary) · ang ġewunelīċ (usual, ordinary) · tr normal (usual, ordinary) · cmn 常態 /常态 (according to norms or rules)