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nor⋅mal⋅ly

  [nawr-muh-lee]
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–adverb
1. in a normal or regular way: The wound is healing normally.
2. according to rule, general custom, etc.; as a rule; ordinarily; usually.
Origin:
1590–1600; normal + -ly
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nor·mal   (nôr'məl)   
adj.  
  1. Conforming with, adhering to, or constituting a norm, standard, pattern, level, or type; typical: normal room temperature; one's normal weight; normal diplomatic relations.
  2. Biology Functioning or occurring in a natural way; lacking observable abnormalities or deficiencies.
  3. Abbr. n or N Chemistry
    1. Designating a solution having one gram equivalent weight of solute per liter of solution.
    2. Designating an aliphatic hydrocarbon having a straight and unbranched chain of carbon atoms.
    3. Being at right angles; perpendicular.
    4. Perpendicular to the direction of a tangent line to a curve or a tangent plane to a surface.
    5. Relating to or characterized by average intelligence or development.
    6. Free from mental illness; sane.
  4. Mathematics
    1. Being at right angles; perpendicular.
    2. Perpendicular to the direction of a tangent line to a curve or a tangent plane to a surface.
    3. Relating to or characterized by average intelligence or development.
    4. Free from mental illness; sane.
    1. Relating to or characterized by average intelligence or development.
    2. Free from mental illness; sane.
n.  
  1. Something normal; the standard: scored close to the normal.
  2. The usual or expected state, form, amount, or degree.
    1. Correspondence to a norm.
    2. An average.
  4. Mathematics A perpendicular, especially a perpendicular to a line tangent to a plane curve or to a plane tangent to a space curve.

[Middle English, from Late Latin normālis, from Latin, made according to the square, from norma, carpenter's square; see gnō- in Indo-European roots.]
nor'mal·ly adv.
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Nor"mal*ly\, adv. In a normal manner. --Darwin.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : normally
Spanish: normalmente,
German: normal,
Japanese: 普通に
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