normal
/ˈnoɹ.məl/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.01 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
adj
According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
adj
According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
adj
According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
adj
According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
adj
According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
adj
According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
adj
According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
Example Sentences
- "Organize the data into third normal form."
- "2007, Steven Wilson, "Normal", Porcupine Tree, Nil Recurring. Prescription drugs, they help me through the day And that restraining order keeps me well at bay And what's normal now, anyway?"
- "In other words, although the legal processes were observed, it was not a normal transfer of power within each of the ruling communist parties. […] Demonstrations of the sort that brought about the collapse of the communist regimes in Eastern Europe were not normal, and where attempts had previously been made to hold them, they were invariably suppressed by force."
- "More than a third of the new flats will be a mix of council rent and "affordable" rent – definitions vary but often this is taken to mean that their cost won't exceed 80% of the normal market rate."
- "A number whose individual digits in a given base representation follow a uniform distribution is said to be simply normal."
- "A number that is normal for every base b ≥ 2 is said to be absolutely normal."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- Proto-Indo-European *-sḱéti Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₃sḱétider. Proto-Hellenic *gignṓskō Ancient Greek γιγνώσκω (gignṓskō) Proto-Indo-European *-mṓ Ancient Greek -μων (-mōn) Ancient Greek γνώμων (gnṓmōn)bor. Etruscanbor.? Latin norma Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin nōrmālisder. English normal 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 "according to a rule", from which modern English senses of the word derive: in the 1800s, as people began to quantitatively study things like height, weight and blood pressure, the usual or most common values came to be called "normal", and by extension values regarded as healthy or desirable came to be called "normal" regardless of their usuality.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *ǵneh₃-, normālis
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈnoɹ.məl/
- British English: /ˈnɔː.məl/
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Chemistry.
Inflected Forms
more normal (comparative)
normaler (colloquial, comparative)
normaller (colloquial, comparative)
most normal (colloquial, superlative)
normalest (colloquial, superlative)
normallest (colloquial, superlative)
normals (plural)