normal
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
normal/ˈnɔːml/
▶adjective
- 1 conforming to a standard; usual, typical, or expected.
- 2 technical intersecting a given line or surface at right angles.
- 3 Medicine containing the same salt concentration as the blood.
■ Chemistry, dated (of a solution) containing one gram-equivalent of solute per litre.
- 4 Geology denoting a fault in which a relative downward movement occurred in the strata on the upper side of the fault plane.
- 1 the normal state or condition: her temperature was above normal.
- 2 technical a line at right angles to a given line or surface.
'normal' also found in these Oxford entries:
aberrant
- aberration
- abnormal
- AD
- after
- alpha rhythm
- alternative
- anamorphosis
- anergy
- anomaly
- antidromic
- antimatter
- antimetabolite
- apoptosis
- as
- auxotroph
- back
- backward
- bargain
- bell curve
- bendlet
- beta rhythm
- bit
- blind spot
- bored
- breath
- carry
- Celtic
- chlorosis
- clairvoyance
- competence
- contango
- contort
- contrabass
- course
- damage
- darkroom
- day
- day of rest
- decipher
- decompress
- decompression chamber
- defibrillation
- degenerate
- developmental delay
- dialysis
- discount store
- dislocate
- disorder
- disturb
