normals
- 1Plural of normal.
Researchers compared the patients' brain scans with those of the normals.
In geometry, the normals to the curve all met at a single point.
Note
A regular -s plural that belongs only to the noun, since the adjective normal never takes it. It usually counts lines or vectors perpendicular to a surface, as in the normals to a curve. It can also count people set against an unusual group: healthy people beside patients or, in slang, mainstream people beside those with alternative lifestyles. The usual state rarely pluralizes: things return to normal, not to normals.
normals is a form of normal
normal, noun: The condition or state of affairs that counts as usual or expected. Full entry
- Forms
- normalnormals plural
- Spelling
- normal → normals: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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