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normal

Pronunciation: /ˈnɔː.məl/

The English word “normal” has 20 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
  2. 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.
  3. With cosets which form a group.
  4. Which is the splitting field of a family of polynomials in K.
  5. Which has a very specific bell curve shape; that is or has the qualities of a normal distribution.
  6. Which is pre-compact.
  7. Which is strictly monotonically increasing and continuous with respect to the order topology.
  8. Which commutes with its conjugate transpose.
  9. Which commutes with its adjoint.
  10. Which is the kernel or cokernel of some morphism, respectively.
  11. Which contains only normal morphisms.
  12. In which disjoint closed sets can be separated by disjoint neighborhoods.
  13. Integrally closed: equal its own integral closure in its field of fractions.
  14. Such that all of its localizations at prime ideals are integrally closed domains.
  15. Such that the local ring at every point is an integrally closed domain.
  16. Usual, healthy; not sick or ill or unlike oneself.
  17. Fervently interested in a subject; obsessed.
  18. Teaching teachers how to teach; teaching teachers the norms of education.
  19. Of, relating to, or being a solution containing one equivalent weight of solute per litre of solution.
  20. 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.

Etymology

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…

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