1. people who are considered typical or ordinary in behavior, appearance, or mental state
Usage: informal; sometimes considered insensitive when referring to mental health or disabilities
2. lines perpendicular to a surface at a given point
Usage: mathematics; geometry

Examples

• The artist felt like an outsider among the normals at the corporate party.
• She wondered if she would ever fit in with the normals in her new school.
• The geometry teacher explained how to draw normals to the curve.
• In calculus, we studied the normals to various surfaces.
• The normals at each point on the sphere pass through its center.
• He felt different from the normals around him but learned to embrace his uniqueness.