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Meaning of normal in English

normal
adjective
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/ˈnɔː.məl/ us
/ˈnɔːr.məl/
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ordinary or usual; the same as would be expected:
a normal working day
Lively behaviour is normal for a four-year-old child.
It's normal for couples to argue now and then.
They were selling the goods at half the normal cost.
The temperature was above/below normal for the time of year.
Things are back to normal now that we've paid off all our debts.
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
normal
  • normalTemperatures are well above normal today.
  • usualI went to bed at my usual time.
  • ordinaryThe magazine has stories about ordinary people rather than celebrities.
  • standardIt's standard practice for surgeons to wear gloves.
  • naturalIt's completely natural to feel anxious on your first day at a new school.
  • typicalHe was a typical teenager - arguing with his parents and staying out late.
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(Definition of normal from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

normal | American Dictionary

normal
adjective
us
/ˈnɔr·məl/

normal adjective (NOT UNUSUAL)

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ordinary or usual; as would be expected:
He seemed perfectly normal to me.
The temperature is above/below normal today.

normalization

noun [ U ] us/ˌnɔr·mə·ləˈzeɪ·ʃən, -lɑɪ-/
normal
noun [ C ]
us/ˈnɔr·məl/

normal noun [C] (LINE)

physics
a line that is perpendicular (= at an angle of 90 degrees) to a surface
(Definition of normal from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

normal | Business English

normal
adjective
uk
/ˈnɔːməl/ us
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usual, and what you would expect:
They were selling the good at half the normal price.
In normal circumstances, you should be able to decide this sort of thing without consulting your manager.
It is normal practice to refer such questions to the Board.
The day after the incident, everyone was back at work as normal.
(Definition of normal from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of normal

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This comment about ' returning to normal ageing ' is very interesting.
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After haemofiltration, which probably eliminated the excessive amount of triiodothyronine, cardiovascular as well as renal functions returned to normal.
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The dancers returned because they could use it as a tool to formulate body actions which were outside their normal performance routines.
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Therefore, by repeated application of the rules the input types are reduced to a normal form.
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We find s by reducing t to normal form.
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This was because of our discovery that in normal development, identical behaviour at two different ages could be sustained by very different underlying representations.
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In the model, word final stops and fricatives were given weaker representations in the normal case to reflect their lower salience.
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This case admits a specially simple normal form in which the low degree terms of the normal form can be replaced by coordinate functions.
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In five out of six fish, sensitivity recovered to normal.
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The author suggested that this animal might have recovered normal eye alignment.
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More recently the roles of specific genes in normal cardiogenesis been defined.
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In the normal study condition, participants were told to concentrate and remember as many words as possible.
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She is supposed to represent herself (and write representations of) normal ways of behaving and thinking.
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