normal
Pronunciation: /ˈnɔː.məl/
The English word “normal” has 20 meanings listed here.
adjective
- According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
- 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.
- With cosets which form a group.
- Which is the splitting field of a family of polynomials in K.
- Which has a very specific bell curve shape; that is or has the qualities of a normal distribution.
- Which is pre-compact.
- Which is strictly monotonically increasing and continuous with respect to the order topology.
- Which commutes with its conjugate transpose.
- Which commutes with its adjoint.
- Which is the kernel or cokernel of some morphism, respectively.
- Which contains only normal morphisms.
- In which disjoint closed sets can be separated by disjoint neighborhoods.
- Integrally closed: equal its own integral closure in its field of fractions.
- Such that all of its localizations at prime ideals are integrally closed domains.
- Such that the local ring at every point is an integrally closed domain.
- Usual, healthy; not sick or ill or unlike oneself.
- Fervently interested in a subject; obsessed.
- Teaching teachers how to teach; teaching teachers the norms of education.
- Of, relating to, or being a solution containing one equivalent weight of solute per litre of solution.
- 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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