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normal
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[ adjective ] conforming with or constituting a norm or standard or level or type or social norm; not abnormal
Examples "serve wine at normal room temperature" "normal diplomatic relations" "normal working hours" "normal word order" "the normal course of events" Used in print (The Dallas Morning News,...)A normal year 's work in college is 30 semester_hours . (William G. Pollard, Physicist and Christian....)Aside_from a quaint concern with witches and devils which provides the immediate problem in the opening scene , it is a quite normal community . The conversation of the characters creates an atmosphere suggesting the usual mixture of pleasures , foibles , irritations , and concerns which would characterize the common life of a normal village in any age . (Organic Gardening and Farming,...)They were put on control diets to determine as accurately as possible , the normal cholesterol level of their blood . (Tristram P. Coffin, "Folklore in the American Twentieth...)After_all , the average American as he lies and waits for the enemy in Korea or as she scans the newspaper in some vain hope of personal contact with the front is unconcerned that his or her plight is the result of a complex of personal , economic and governmental actions far beyond the normal citizen 's comprehension and control . |
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[ adjective ] in accordance with scientific laws
Used in print (1961 Research Highlights of the National Bureau of...)The results of the study , based on collision integrals computed from the latest critically evaluated data on intermolecular forces in air , will be reported in the form of a table of viscosity , thermal conductivity , thermal diffusion , and diffusion coefficients at temperatures of 1000 to 10000 * * f and of logarithm of pressure in atmospheres from * * f to * * f times normal density . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] (geometry) forming a right angle
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[ adjective ] (psychology) being approximately average or within certain limits in e.g. intelligence and development
Examples "a perfectly normal child" "of normal intelligence" "the most normal person I've ever met" Related terms |
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[ noun ] something regarded as a normative example
Synonyms Examples "the convention of not naming the main character" "violence is the rule not the exception" "his formula for impressing visitors" Related terms |
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