| normal | |
| 1. adj. according to norms or rules | |
| Organize the data into third normal form. | |
| 2. adj. healthy; not sick or ill | |
| John is feeling normal again. | |
| 3. adj. (education, of a school) teaching teachers how to teach (to certain norms) | |
| My grandmother attended Mankato State Normal School. | |
| 4. adj. (chemistry) of, relating to, or being a solution containing one equivalent weight of solute per litre of solution | |
| 5. adj. (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 | |
| 6. adj. (physics, of a mode in an oscillating system) in which all parts of an object vibrate at the same frequency (see normal mode) | |
| 7. adj. (rail transport, of points) in the default position, set for the most frequently used route | |
| 8. adj. (geometry) perpendicular to a tangent of a curve or derivative of a surface | |
| 9. adj. (mathematics) adhering to or being what is considered natural or regular in a particular field or context: | |
| 10. adj. (of a real number) whose digits, in any base representation, enjoy a uniform distribution | |
| 11. adj. (algebra, of a subgroup) with cosets which form a group | |
| 12. adj. (algebra, of a field extension of a field K) which is the splitting field of a family of polynomials in K | |
| 13. adj. (probability theory, statistics, of a distribution) which has a very specific bell curve shape; that is or has the qualities of a normal distribution | |
| 14. adj. (probability theory, statistics, of a random variable, etc.) which has a normal distribution; which is associated with random variable that has a norma | |
| 15. adj. (complex analysis, of a family of continuous functions) which is pre-compact | |
| 16. adj. (set theory, of a function from the ordinals to the ordinals) which is strictly monotonically increasing and continuous with respect to the order topol | |
| 17. adj. (linear algebra, of a matrix) which commutes with its conjugate transpose | |
| 18. adj. (functional analysis, of a Hilbert space operator) which commutes with its adjoint | |
| 19. adj. (category theory) being (as a morphism) or containing (as a category) only normal epimorphism(s) or monomorphism(s), that is, those which are the kerne | |
| 20. adj. (topology, of a topology) in which disjoint closed sets can be separated by disjoint neighborhoods | |
| 21. n. (geometry) a line or vector that is perpendicular to another line, surface, or plane. | |
| 22. n. (slang) a person who is normal, who fits into mainstream society, as opposed to those who live alternative lifestyles. | |
| 23. n. the usual state. | |
| His workload is now back to normal. | |
| Heavy workload is the new normal. | |
