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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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— The Great Gray Plague • Raymond F. Jones

... front had set the wires singing to the evening editions; for Lanstron had directed that they be given the ran of the army's lines at daybreak. They told of soldiers awakening after the debauch of yesterday's fighting, normal and rested, glowing with the security of possession of the frontier and responding to their leaders' sentiment; of officers of the type favored by Partow who would bring the industry that commands respect to any ...

— The Last Shot • Frederick Palmer

... number; and secondly, that in old areas of subsidence each separate atoll must be increasing indefinitely in thickness, if proofs of their occasional destruction could not have been adduced. Thus have we traced the history of these great rings of coral-rock, from their first origin through their normal changes, and through the occasional accidents of their existence, to their death ...

— A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World - The Voyage Of The Beagle • Charles Darwin

... from that of his brother. He was his father's pride. Serjeant Borrow could not understand George with his extraordinary taste for the society of queer people—the wild Irish and the ragged Romanies. John had far more of the normal in his being. Borrow gives us in Lavengro our earliest ...

— George Borrow and His Circle - Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of - Borrow And His Friends • Clement King Shorter

... young can be nothing but the effect of calculating selfishness or the index of psychical anemia—have an air of complacency or of pity for socialists whom they consider, at best, as "misled," without perceiving that what is normal is for the old to be conservatives, but that young conservatives can be nothing but egoists who are afraid of losing the life of idle luxury into which they were born or the advantages of the orthodox ...

— Socialism and Modern Science (Darwin, Spencer, Marx) • Enrico Ferri

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