Meaning

According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern..

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

Organize the data into third normal form.

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.

John is feeling normal again.

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 […]

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.

Subjects were grouped as Group 1 and Group 2 according to VAI, and normals, overweights and obeses according to BMI.

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

Word Forms

• more normal
• normaler
• normaller
• most normal
• normalest
• normallest
• normals

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Use normal when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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