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Normal Definition–adjective | 1. | conforming to the standard or the common type; usual; not abnormal; regular; natural. | | 2. | serving to establish a standard. | | 3. | Psychology. | a. | approximately average in any psychological trait, as intelligence, personality, or emotional adjustment. | | b. | free from any mental disorder; sane. | | | 4. | Biology, Medicine/Medical. | a. | free from any infection or other form of disease or malforma
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tion, or from experimental therapy or manipulation. | | b. | of natural occurrence. | | | 5. | Mathematics. | a. | being at right angles, as a line; perpendicular. | | b. | of the nature of or pertaining to a mathematical normal. | | c. | (of an orthogonal system of real functions) defined so that the integral of the square of the absolute value of any function is 1. | | d. | (of a topological space) having the property that corresponding to every pair of disjoint closed sets are two disjoint open sets, each containing one of the closed sets. | | e. | (of a subgroup) having the property that the same set of elements results when all the elements of the subgroup are operated on consistently on the left and consistently on the right by any element of the group; invariant. | | | 6. | Chemistry. | a. | (of a solution) containing one equivalent weight of the constituent in question in one liter of solution. | | b. | pertaining to an aliphatic hydrocarbon having a straight unbranched carbon chain, each carbon atom of which is joined to no more than two other carbon atoms. | | c. | of or pertaining to a neutral salt in which any replaceable hydroxyl groups or hydrogen atoms have been replaced by other groups or atoms, as sodium sulfate, Na2SO4. | | –noun | 7. | the average or mean: Production may fall below normal. | | 9. | Mathematics. | a. | a perpendicular line or plane, esp. one perpendicular to a tangent line of a curve, or a tangent plane of a surface, at the point of contact. | | b. | the portion of this perpendicular line included between its point of contact with the curve and the x-axis. | | |
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Curve Definition–noun | 1. | a continuously bending line, without angles. | | 2. | the act or extent of curving. | | 3. | any curved outline, form, thing, or part. | | 4. | a curved
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Railroads. a curved section of track: in the U.S. the curve is often expressed as the central angle, measured in degrees, of a curved section of track subtended by a chord 100 ft. (30 m) long (degree of curve). | | 6. | Also called curve ball. Baseball. | a. | a pitch delivered with a spin that causes the ball to veer from a normal straight path, away from the side from which it was thrown. | | b. | the course of such a pitched ball. | | | 7. | a graphic representation of the variations effected in something by the influence of changing conditions; graph. | | 8. | Mathematics. a collection of points whose coordinates are continuous functions of a single independent variable. | | 9. | a misleading or deceptive trick; cheat; deception. | | 10. | Education. a grading system based on the scale of performance of a group, so that those performing better, regardless of their actual knowledge of the subject, receive high grades: The new English professor marks on a curve. Compare absolute (def. 10). | | 11. | a curved guide used in drafting. | –verb (used with object) | 12. | to bend in a curve; cause to take the course of a curve. | | 14. | Baseball. to pitch a curve to. | –verb (used without object) | 15. | to bend in a curve; take the course of a curve. | –adjective —Idioms | 17. | ahead of (or behind) the curve, at the forefront of (or lagging behind) recent developments, trends, etc. | | 18. | throw (someone) a curve, | a. | to take (someone) by surprise, esp. in a negative way. | | b. | to mislead or deceive. | | |
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in architecture, the convex curve given to a column, spire, or similar upright member, in an attempt to correct the optical illusion of hollowness or weakness that would arise from normal tapering. ...
liquid
To a certain extent the behaviour of all substances is similar to that described in . The parameters that vary from substance to substance are the particular values of the triple-point and ...
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The absence of long-range order is the defining characteristic of the atomic arrangement in amorphous solids. However, because of the absence in glasses of long parallel rows and flat parallel planes ...
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any of a group of deviations of the normal spinal curvature, including scoliosis, lordosis, and kyphosis. |
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