Antinormal

Quick meaning: Antinormal is an adjective meaning Antagonistic to or causing deviations from that which is considered normal.

Meaning

Antagonistic to or causing deviations from that which is considered normal.

More Meanings

1. In the opposite direction or position from what is normal or canonical.
2. (geometry) Perpendicular to a tangent of a curve or tangent plane of a surface but pointing opposite to convention.
3. (geometry) A normal that points opposite to convention. For example, in solid geometry it is conventional for normals to point outwards, so an antinormal in solid geometry refers to a normal pointing inwards.

Example Sentences

Thus, all red-cell eluates containing complement components, always revealed the presence of both antinormal and antinull activity.

The piling may, however, be either the normal piling of Prof. Reynolds, or the antinormal piling described by Prof. Everett, or a combination of the two.

In the machine having antinormal rotation the engine will be running in the opposite direction, taking the left-hand propeller for the tractor and the right-hand for the pusher.

The antinormal form studied in this section can be considered as the most scattered form of an SG: Each relation node is disconnected from the other relation nodes and there are no multiple edges.

Word Forms

• antinormals

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