general vs normal

general

adj
  • Prevalent or widespread among a given class or area; common, usual. 

  • Including or involving every part or member of a given or implied entity, whole etc.; as opposed to specific or particular. 

  • Not limited in use or application; applicable to the whole or every member of a class or category. 

  • Giving or consisting of only the most important aspects of something, ignoring minor details; indefinite. 

  • Applied to a person (as a postmodifier or a normal preceding adjective) to indicate supreme rank, in civil or military titles, and later in other terms; pre-eminent. 

  • Not limited to a specific class; miscellaneous, concerned with all branches of a given subject or area. 

noun
  • The holder of a senior military title, originally designating the commander of an army and now a specific rank falling under field marshal (in the British army) and below general of the army or general of the air force in the US army and air forces. 

  • A great strategist or tactician. 

  • General anesthesia. 

  • A xiangqi piece, that is moved one point orthogonally and confined within the palace. 

  • A general anesthetic. 

  • The head of certain religious orders, especially Dominicans or Jesuits. 

  • A commander of naval forces; an admiral. 

  • A general servant; a maid with no specific duties. 

  • The general insurance industry. 

verb
  • To lead (soldiers) as a general. 

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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