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Normal can be a noun or an adjective.
normal used as a noun:
- A line or vector that is perpendicular to another line, a surface, or a plane.
- A person who is normal, who fits into mainstream society, as opposed to those who live alternative lifestyles.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
normal used as an adjective:
- According to norms or rules.
"Organize the data into third normal form." - Usual; ordinary
"Felicia baked the bread the normal way." - Healthy; not sick or ill
"John is feeling normal again." - Pertaining to a school to teach teachers how to teach.
"My grandmother attended Mankato State Normal School." - Heterosexual.
"We don't like your sort around here - this bar is for normal people." - of, relating to, or being a solution containing one equivalent weight of solute per litre of solution.
- (Of a mode in an oscillating system) In which all parts of an object vibrate at the same frequency; See normal mode
- Perpendicular to a tangent line or derivative of a surface in Euclidean space.
"The interior normal vector of a ideal perfect sphere will always point toward the center, and the exterior normal vector directly away, and both will always be co-linear with the ray whose' tip ends at the point of intersection, which is the intersection of all three sets of points." - (Of a subgroup) whose cosets form a group
- (Of a field extension of a field K) which is the splitting field of a family of polynomials in K
- (Of a distribution) which has a very specific bell curve shape
- (Of a family of continuous functions) which is pre-compact
- (Of a function from the ordinals to the ordinals) which is strictly monotonically increasing and continuous with respect to the order topology
- (Of a matrix) which commutes with its conjugate transpose
- (Of a Hilbert space operator) which commutes with its adjoint
- (Of an epimorphism) which is the cokernel of some morphism
- (Of a monomorphism) which is the kernel of some morphism
- (Of a morphism) which is a normal epimorphism or a normal monomorphism
- (Of a category) in which every monomorphism is normal
- (Of a real number) whose digits, in any base representation, enjoy a uniform distribution
- (Of a topology) in which disjoint closed sets can be separated by disjoint neighborhoods
- in the default position, set for the most frequently used route.
Adjectives are are describing words. An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun (examples: small, scary, silly). Adjectives make the meaning of a noun more precise. Learn more →
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What type of word is normal?
- Adjective usage: Organize the data into third normal form.
- Adjective usage: Felicia baked the bread the normal way.
- Adjective usage: John is feeling normal again.
- Adjective usage: My grandmother attended Mankato State Normal School.
- Adjective usage: We don't like your sort around here - this bar is for normal people.
- Adjective usage: The interior normal vector of a ideal perfect sphere will always point toward the center, and the exterior normal vector directly away, and both will always be co-linear with the ray whose' tip ends at the point of intersection, which is the intersection of all three sets of points.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of normal are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of normal, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
