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normal

/ˈnɔːməl/

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A line or vector that is perpendicular to another line, surface, or plane.
A person who is normal, who fits into mainstream society, as opposed to those who live alternative lifestyles.
The usual state.
"Heavy workload is the new normal."

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."
(of a school) teaching teachers how to teach (to certain norms)
"My grandmother attended Mankato State Normal School."
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.
(of a mode in an oscillating system) In which all parts of an object vibrate at the same frequency (see normal mode).
(of points) In the default position, set for the most frequently used route.
Perpendicular to a tangent of a curve or derivative of a surface.
"The interior normal vector of an ideal perfect sphere will always point toward the center, and the exterior normal vector directly away, and both will always be co-linear with the ray whose' tip ends at the point of intersection, which is the intersection of all three sets of points."