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Normal   /nˈɔrməl/   Listen
Normal

adjective
1.
Conforming with or constituting a norm or standard or level or type or social norm; not abnormal.  "Normal diplomatic relations" , "Normal working hours" , "Normal word order" , "Normal curiosity" , "The normal course of events"
2.
In accordance with scientific laws.
3.
Being approximately average or within certain limits in e.g. intelligence and development.  "Of normal intelligence" , "The most normal person I've ever met"
4.
Forming a right angle.
noun
1.
Something regarded as a normative example.  Synonyms: convention, formula, pattern, rule.  "Violence is the rule not the exception" , "His formula for impressing visitors"



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... dividing itself into bands scattered into every direction, holding up and searching both black men and women, beating and shooting those who showed a disposition to resist. On the corner of Seventh and Nun Streets stands Gregory Normal Institute for colored youth, with Christ Church (Congregational) and the teachers' home, comprising the most beautiful group of buildings in the city. This is the property of the American Missionary Association. The morning devotions had just ended ...
— Hanover; Or The Persecution of the Lowly - A Story of the Wilmington Massacre. • David Bryant Fulton
... science defines in such cases "an image of memory which differs in intensity from the normal"—that is to say, a fixed idea so persistent and growing that to the thinker ...
— Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories • Edited by Julian Hawthorne
... immediately caused by thus forcing up a register; and not only are these affected by the strain put upon them, but the whole interior of the throat becomes blood-red, and looks irritated and inflamed. As soon as the change to the right register is made the vocal apparatus returns to its normal state. ...
— The Mechanism of the Human Voice • Emil Behnke
... farm in the summer season. At the age of sixteen he entered the Norwalk Seminary, pursuing his studies with vigor for a few years, when it became necessary for him to earn his own living. He taught several schools and was among the first in the State to inaugurate the normal school system to elevate the standard of teaching and ...
— Cleveland Past and Present - Its Representative Men, etc. • Maurice Joblin
... incorporating all principles in the shibboleth of that single name. You have thus sought the well-spring of a political system in the deepest stratum of popular ignorance. To rid popular ignorance of its normal revolutionary bias, the rural peasants are indoctrinated with the conservatism that comes from the fear which appertains to property. They have their roots of land or their shares in a national loan. Thus you ...
— The Parisians, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton


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