normal
adjective
[ ˈnɔːm(ə)l ]
• conforming to a standard; usual, typical, or expected.
• "it's quite normal for puppies to bolt their food"
Similar:
usual,
standard,
typical,
stock,
common,
ordinary,
customary,
conventional,
habitual,
accustomed,
expected,
wonted,
everyday,
regular,
routine,
day-to-day,
daily,
established,
settled,
set,
fixed,
traditional,
quotidian,
prevailing,
average,
run-of-the-mill,
middle-of-the-road,
mainstream,
unremarkable,
unexceptional,
plain,
simple,
homely,
homespun,
workaday,
garden-variety,
bog-standard,
vanilla,
plain vanilla,
a dime a dozen,
common or garden,
ornery,
• (of a line, ray, or other linear feature) intersecting a given line or surface at right angles.
• "a single plane of symmetry with a diad axis normal to it"
• (of a salt solution) containing the same salt concentration as the blood.
• "dilute the stock solution with sterile water or normal saline"
• denoting a fault or faulting in which a relative downward movement occurred in the strata situated on the upper side of the fault plane.
normal
noun
• the usual, typical, or expected state or condition.
• "her temperature was above normal"
• a line at right angles to a given line or surface.
• "the view is along the normal to the surface"
Origin:
mid 17th century (in the sense ‘right-angled’): from Latin normalis, from norma ‘carpenter's square’ (see norm). Current senses date from the early 19th century.
