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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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"Normal" Quotes from Famous Books



... successful seems to be one in which water is being constantly forced by a pump driven off the engine shaft into a cylinder controlling a throttle-valve in the main steam-pipe. The water escapes through a leak, which is adjustable. As long as the speed of the engine is normal, the water escapes from the cylinder as fast as it is pumped in, and no movement of the piston results; but when the screw begins to race, the pump overcomes the leak, and the piston is driven out, causing a throttling of the ...
— How it Works • Archibald Williams
... like those of the squares in French cities, where not a blade of grass is allowed to grow. As to the other symptoms of devastation and obstruction, such as deserted houses, unfenced fields, and a general aspect of nakedness and ruin, I know not how much may be due to a normal lack of neatness in the rural life of Virginia, which puts a squalid face even upon a prosperous state of things; but undoubtedly the war must have spoilt what was good, and made the bad a great deal ...
— Sketches and Studies • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... is what the Apostle prays for his beloved friends in Thessalonica—abounding love and perfect holiness. This is Christianity and the normal Christian life. How simple it all is, summed up in the words Love and Holiness. And yet how searching it is! The simplest things are often the most difficult, and while it is possible for the believer ...
— The Prayers of St. Paul • W. H. Griffith Thomas
... her own and every one else's memory any case in which she had shown her susceptibility to terror. She wondered at herself in these occasional experiences, which seemed like a brief remembered madness, an unexplained exception from her normal life; and in this instance she felt a peculiar vexation that her helpless fear had shown itself, not, as usual, in solitude, but in well-lit company. Her ideal was to be daring in speech and reckless in braving dangers, both moral and physical; and though her practice fell far behind ...
— Daniel Deronda • George Eliot
... The form leant is retained here, as the stem-vowel, though unaltered in spelling, is shortened in pronunciation. Thus leant (pronounced 'lent') from lean comes under the same category as crept from creep, lept from leap, cleft from cleave, etc.—perfectly normal forms, all of them. In the case of weak preterites formed without any vowel-change, the more regular formation with ed is that which has been adopted in this ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume I • Percy Bysshe Shelley


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