character vs normal

character

noun
  • A person or individual, especially one who is unknown. 

  • Strength of mind; resolution; independence; individuality; moral strength. 

  • A complex number representing an element of a finite Abelian group. 

  • A being involved in the action of a story. 

  • Quality, position, rank, or capacity; quality or conduct with respect to a certain office or duty. 

  • One of the basic elements making up a text file or string: a code representing a printing character or a control character. 

  • A distinguishing feature; characteristic; trait; phene. 

  • A complex of traits marking a person, group, breed, or type. 

  • A written or printed symbol, or letter. 

  • A unique or extraordinary individual; a person characterized by peculiar or notable traits, especially charisma. 

normal

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

  • The usual state. 

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

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

adj
  • 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. 

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

  • 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. 

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