boilerplate vs normal

boilerplate

adj
  • Describing text or other material of a standard or routine nature. 

  • Used to refer to a non-functional spacecraft used to test configuration and procedures. 

noun
  • A sheet of copper or steel used in the construction of a boiler. 

  • Syndicated material. 

  • The rating plate or nameplate required to be affixed to a boiler by the Boiler Explosions Act (1882). 

  • Standard text or program code used routinely and added with a text editor or word processor; text of a legal or official nature added to documents or labels. 

  • Hard, icy snow which may be dangerous to ski on. 

  • Formulaic or hackneyed language. 

  • A plate attached to industrial machinery, identifying information such as manufacturer, model number, serial number, and power requirements. 

verb
  • To store (standard text) so that it can easily be retrieved for reuse. 

normal

adj
  • According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern. 

  • Usual, healthy; not sick or ill or unlike oneself. 

  • Which has a very specific bell curve shape; that is or has the qualities of a normal distribution. 

  • Which is the splitting field of a family of polynomials in K. 

  • 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. 

  • In the default position, set for the most frequently used route. 

  • Which commutes with its adjoint. 

  • In which all parts of an object vibrate at the same frequency (see normal mode). 

  • Which commutes with its conjugate transpose. 

  • 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. 

  • Perpendicular to a tangent of a curve or derivative of a surface. 

  • In which disjoint closed sets can be separated by disjoint neighborhoods. 

  • Being (as a morphism) or containing (as a category) only normal epimorphism(s) or monomorphism(s), that is, those which are the kernel or cokernel of some morphism, respectively. 

  • teaching teachers how to teach (to certain norms) 

  • Of, relating to, or being a solution containing one equivalent weight of solute per litre of solution. 

  • Which has a normal distribution; which is associated with a random variable that has a normal distribution. 

  • Which is pre-compact. 

  • With cosets which form a group. 

  • Which is strictly monotonically increasing and continuous with respect to the order topology. 

noun
  • The usual state. 

  • A person who is normal, who fits into mainstream society, as opposed to those who live alternative lifestyles. 

  • A person who is healthy, normal, as opposed to one who is morbid. 

  • A line or vector that is perpendicular to another line, surface, or plane. 

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