Normal vs. Usual — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Normal and Usual
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Normal
Conforming with, adhering to, or constituting a norm, standard, pattern, level, or type; typical
Normal room temperature.
One's normal weight.
Normal diplomatic relations.
Usual
Commonly encountered, experienced, or observed
The usual summer heat.
Normal
(Biology) Functioning or occurring in a natural way; lacking observable abnormalities or deficiencies.
Usual
Regularly or customarily used
Ended the speech with the usual expressions of thanks.
Normal
Relating to or designating the normality of a solution.
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Usual
In conformity with regular practice or procedure
Come at the usual time.
Normal
Abbr. n Designating an aliphatic hydrocarbon having an acyclic unbranched chain of carbon atoms.
Usual
Most commonly occurring; typical.
The preference of a boy to a girl is a usual occurrence in some parts of China.
It is becoming more usual these days to rear children as bilingual.
Normal
Being at right angles; perpendicular.
Usual
The typical state of something, or something that is typical.
Normal
Perpendicular to the direction of a tangent line to a curve or a tangent plane to a surface.
Usual
(colloquial) A specific good or service (e.g. a drink) that someone typically orders.
I'll just have the usual.
Normal
Relating to or characterized by average intelligence or development.
Usual
Such as is in common use; such as occurs in ordinary practice, or in the ordinary course of events; customary; ordinary; habitual; common.
Consultation with oracles was a thing very usual and frequent in their times.
We can make friends of these usual enemies.
Normal
Free from mental illness; sane.
Usual
Occurring or encountered or experienced or observed frequently or in accordance with regular practice or procedure;
Grew the usual vegetables
The usual summer heat
Came at the usual time
The child's usual bedtime
Normal
The usual, expected, or standard state, form, amount, or degree
Temperatures have been above normal for this time of year.
Usual
Commonly encountered;
A common (or familiar) complaint
The usual greeting
Normal
(Mathematics) A perpendicular, especially a perpendicular to a line tangent to a plane curve or to a plane tangent to a space curve.
Normal
According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
Organize the data into third normal form.
Normal
(mathematics) Adhering to or being what is considered natural or regular in a particular field or context:
Normal
Usual, healthy; not sick or ill or unlike oneself.
John is feeling normal again.
Normal
Teaching teachers how to teach to certain norms
My grandmother attended Mankato State Normal School.
Normal
(chemistry) Of, relating to, or being a solution containing one equivalent weight of solute per litre of solution.
Normal
(organic chemistry) 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.
Normal
In which all parts of an object vibrate at the same frequency normal mode]].
Normal
In the default position, set for the most frequently used route.
Normal
(geometry) Perpendicular to a tangent of a curve or derivative of a surface.
The interior normal vector of an 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.
Normal
(geometry) A line or vector that is perpendicular to another line, surface, or plane.
Normal
A person who is healthy, normal, as opposed to one who is morbid.
Normal
A person who is normal, who fits into mainstream society, as opposed to those who live alternative lifestyles.
Normal
The usual state.
His workload is now back to normal.
Heavy workload is the new normal.
Normal
According to an established norm, rule, or principle; conformed to a type, standard, or regular form; performing the proper functions; not abnormal; regular; natural; analogical.
Deviations from the normal type.
Normal
According to a square or rule; perpendicular; forming a right angle; as, a line normal to the base. Specifically: Of or pertaining to a normal.
Normal
Standard; original; exact; typical.
Normal
Any perpendicular.
Normal
A straight line or plane drawn from any point of a curve or surface so as to be perpendicular to the curve or surface at that point.
Normal
Something regarded as a normative example;
The convention of not naming the main character
Violence is the rule not the exception
His formula for impressing visitors
Normal
Conforming with or constituting a norm or standard or level or type or social norm; not abnormal;
Serve wine at normal room temperature
Normal diplomatic relations
Normal working hours
Normal word order
Normal curiosity
The normal course of events
Normal
In accordance with scientific laws
Normal
Being approximately average or within certain limits in e.g. intelligence and development;
A perfectly normal child
Of normal intelligence
The most normal person I've ever met
Normal
Forming a right angle
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