Normal

Quick meaning: Normal is an adjective meaning According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.

Meaning

According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.

More Meanings

1. Usual, healthy; not sick or ill or unlike oneself.
2. (education, of a school) Teaching teachers how to teach; teaching teachers the norms of education.
3. (chemistry) Of, relating to, or being a solution containing one equivalent weight of solute per litre of solution.
4. (physics, of a mode in an oscillating system) In which all parts of an object vibrate at the same frequency (a normal mode).
5. (rail transport, of points) In the default position, set for the most frequently used route.
6. (geometry) Perpendicular to a tangent of a curve or tangent plane of a surface.
7. (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.

Example Sentences

John is feeling normal again.

Organize the data into third normal form.

I was quite ill for a while, but latterly seem to have returned to normal.

My grandmother attended Mankato State Normal School; my grandfather attended Illinois State Normal University.

Word Forms

• normaler
• normaller
• normalest
• normallest
• normals

Synonyms for normal

Depending on context, synonyms include average, medial, basic, bog-standard, common, commonplace.

Antonyms for normal

Common opposites include conspicuous, different, egregious, exceptional, historic, interesting.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include typical, natural, rule, modal, pattern, convention.

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