Definitions for normals

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normals nor·mal

Spelling: [nawr-muh l]

IPA: /ˈnɔr məl/

Normals is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 226 anagrams from letters in normals (almnors).

Definitions for normals

adjective

1. conforming to the standard or the common type; usual; not abnormal; regular; natural.
2. serving to establish a standard.
3. Psychology. approximately average in any psychological trait, as intelligence, personality, or emotional adjustment. free from any mental disorder; sane.
4. Biology, Medicine/Medical. free from any infection or other form of disease or malformation, or from experimental therapy or manipulation. of natural occurrence.
5. Mathematics. being at right angles, as a line; perpendicular. of the nature of or pertaining to a mathematical normal. (of an orthogonal system of real functions) defined so that the integral of the square of the absolute value of any function is 1. (of a topological space) having the property that corresponding to every pair of disjoint closed sets are two disjoint open sets, each containing one of the closed sets. (of a subgroup) having the property that the same set of elements results when all the elements of the subgroup are operated on consistently on the left and consistently on the right by any element of the group; invariant.
6. Chemistry. (of a solution) containing one equivalent weight of the constituent in question in one liter of solution. pertaining to an aliphatic hydrocarbon having a straight unbranched carbon chain, each carbon atom of which is joined to no more than two other carbon atoms. of or relating to a neutral salt in which any replaceable hydroxyl groups or hydrogen atoms have been replaced by other groups or atoms, as sodium sulfate, Na 2 SO 4 .

noun

1. the average or mean:
2. the standard or type.
3. Mathematics. a perpendicular line or plane, especially one perpendicular to a tangent line of a curve, or a tangent plane of a surface, at the point of contact. the portion of this perpendicular line included between its point of contact with the curve and the x- axis.
4. a city in central Illinois.

Origin of normals

1520-30; Latin normālis made according to a carpenter's square, equivalent to norm(a) (see norm) + -ālis -al¹

Examples for normals

He appears only normal, even in video footage from just two minutes before the shooting.

I don't believe there is a healthy, normal man living who has not his dream.

Egyptian history is too troublesome, anyhow, for a normal man to grasp.

Slowly the light in the schooner descended to its normal position.

Our supreme task is the resumption of our onward, normal way.

And this energy is utilized at one-half the normal engine speed.

Six months of sterility results, after which normal fertility returns.

normal procedure is that any member country can request that a document be circulated, and the UN does it pro-forma.

Something like fluoride, which is too small for normal filters, yanks away that feeling of agency.

The flight path remained close to the Indonesian archipelago, well within what is the normal reach of air traffic control radar.