adj.
- conforming to a standard; usual, typical, or expected.
- technical intersecting a given line or surface at right angles.
- Medicine containing the same salt concentration as the blood.
▸Chemistry, dated (of a solution) containing one gram-equivalent of solute per litre.
- Geology denoting a fault in which a relative downward movement occurred in the strata on the upper side of the fault plane.
n.
- the normal state or condition:
her temperature was above normal.
- technical a line at right angles to a given line or surface.
Etymology
C17: from L. normalis, from norma (see norm).