normal
According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
Adjective 4 meanings
According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
“Organize the data into third normal form.”
Usual, healthy; not sick or ill or unlike oneself.
“John is feeling normal again.”
Teaching teachers how to teach; teaching teachers the norms of education.
“My grandmother attended Mankato State Normal School; my grandfather attended Illinois State Normal University.”
Of, relating to, or being a solution containing one equivalent weight of solute per litre of solution.
Noun 3 meanings
A line or vector that is perpendicular to another line, surface, or plane.
A person who is healthy, normal, as opposed to one who is morbid.
The usual state.
“I was quite ill for a while, but latterly seem to have returned to normal.”
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.
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NORMAL at a glance
NORMAL has 6 letters and scores 8 points in Scrabble (N 1 + O 1 + R 1 + M 3 + A 1 + L 1) and 11 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #1,015 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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