NORMAL

Normal

In geometry, a normal is an object such as a line or vector that is perpendicular to a given object. For example, in the two-dimensional case, the normal line to a curve at a given point is the line perpendicular to the tangent line to the curve at the point.

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normal

Noun

  1. A line or vector that is perpendicular to another line, surface, or plane.
  2. A person who is normal, who fits into mainstream society, as opposed to those who live alternative lifestyles.

Adjective

  1. According to norms or rules.
  2. Usual; ordinary.
  3. Healthy; not sick or ill.
  4. Pertaining to a school to teach teachers how to teach.
  5. Of, relating to, or being a solution containing one equivalent weight of solute per litre of solution.
  6. Describing a straight chain isomer of an aliphatic hydrocarbon, or an aliphatic compound in which a substituent is in the 1- position of such a hydrocarbon.
  7. (Of a mode in an oscillating system) In which all parts of an object vibrate at the same frequency; See .
  8. Perpendicular to a tangent line or derivative of a surface in Euclidean space.
  9. (Of a subgroup) whose cosets form a group.
  10. (Of a field extension of a field K) which is the splitting field of a family of polynomials in K.
  11. (Of a distribution) which has a very specific bell curve shape.
  12. (Of a family of continuous functions) which is pre-compact.
  13. (Of a function from the ordinals to the ordinals) which is strictly monotonically increasing and continuous with respect to the order topology.
  14. (Of a matrix) which commutes with its conjugate transpose.
  15. (Of a Hilbert space operator) which commutes with its adjoint.
  16. (Of an epimorphism) which is the cokernel of some morphism.
  17. (Of a monomorphism) which is the kernel of some morphism.
  18. (Of a morphism) which is a normal epimorphism or a normal monomorphism.
  19. (Of a category) in which every monomorphism is normal.
  20. (Of a real number) whose digits, in any base representation, enjoy a uniform distribution.
  21. (Of a topology) in which disjoint closed sets can be separated by disjoint neighborhoods.
  22. in the default position, set for the most frequently used route.


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