Question 1 · Quick check
normal
CEFRA2
/ˈnɔː.məl/
adjective
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In plain English
- 01
adjective
Usual, expected, or ordinary.
- 02
adjective
Extra detailAccording to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
Examples
It will not be long before business returns to normal.
Stop seeing me as a "normal" person!
At a glance
Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale
- Senses
- 5
- Parts of speech
- 1
- Citations
- 4
- Synonyms
- 5
Also pronounced
- [ˈnoɹ.mɫ̩]
- [ˈnɔː.mɫ̩]
Deep Dive
adjective
Extra meaningsAdhering to or being what is considered natural or regular in a particular field or context:
In whose representation in a given base b ≥ 2, for every positive integer n, the bⁿ possible strings of n digits follow a uniform distribution.
With cosets which form a group.
More examples
In contextThe rainfall has been above normal for the time of year.
A number that is normal for every base b ≥ 2 is said to be absolutely normal.
A number whose individual digits in a given base representation follow a uniform distribution is said to be simply normal.
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Origin
adjective
From Latin normālis (“made according to a carpenter's square; later: according to a rule”), from nōrma (“carpenter's square”), of uncertain origin; doublet of normale. The earliest meaning of the word in English was "perpendicular; forming a right angle" like something normālis (“made according to a carpenter's square”), but by Late Latin normālis had also come to mean "according to a rule", from which modern English senses of the word derive: in the 1800s, as people began to quantitatively study things like height, weight and blood pressure, the usual or most common values came to be called "normal", and by extension values regarded as healthy or desirable came to be called "normal" regard...