Prescriptive and Normal

adjective

• Pertaining to giving directives or rules.
  • usage: "prescriptive grammar is concerned with norms of or rules for correct usage"
  • synonyms: normative

(a.) Consisting in or acquired by, immemorial or long-continued use and enjoyment; as, a prescriptive right of title; pleading the continuance and authority of long custom.

noun

• Something regarded as a normative example.
  • usage: "the convention of not naming the main character"; "violence is the rule not the exception"; "his formula for impressing visitors"
  • synonyms: convention, pattern, rule, formula

adjective

• Conforming with or constituting a norm or standard or level or type or social norm; not abnormal.
  • usage: "serve wine at normal room temperature"; "normal diplomatic relations"; "normal working hours"; "normal word order"; "normal curiosity"; "the normal course of events"
• In accordance with scientific laws.
• Being approximately average or within certain limits in e. G. Intelligence and development.
  • usage: "a perfectly normal child"; "of normal intelligence"; "the most normal person I've ever met"
• Forming a right angle. .

• (a.) Denoting a solution of such strength that every cubic centimeter contains the same number of milligrams of the element in question as the number of its molecular weight.
• (a.) Any perpendicular.
• (a.) A straight line or plane drawn from any point of a curve or surface so as to be perpendicular to the curve or surface at that point.
• (a.) Standard; original; exact; typical.
• (a.) Denoting certain hypothetical compounds, as acids from which the real acids are obtained by dehydration; thus, normal sulphuric acid and normal nitric acid are respectively S(OH)6, and N(OH)5.
• (a.) According to an established norm, rule or principle; conformed to a type, standard or regular form; performing the proper functions; not abnormal; regular; natural; analogical.
• (a.) Denoting that series of hydrocarbons in which no carbon atom is united with more than two other carbon atoms; as, normal pentane, hexane, etc. Cf. Iso-.
• (a.) According to a square or rule; perpendicular; forming a right angle. Specifically: Of or pertaining to a normal.
• (a.) Any perpendicular.
• (a.) Denoting that series of hydrocarbons in which no carbon atom is united with more than two other carbon atoms; as, normal pentane, hexane, etc. Cf. Iso-.
• (a.) According to a square or rule; perpendicular; forming a right angle. Specifically: Of or pertaining to a normal.
• (a.) Denoting a solution of such strength that every cubic centimeter contains the same number of milligrams of the element in question as the number of its molecular weight.
• (a.) Denoting certain hypothetical compounds, as acids from which the real acids are obtained by dehydration; thus, normal sulphuric acid and normal nitric acid are respectively S(OH)6, and N(OH)5.
• (a.) According to an established norm, rule or principle; conformed to a type, standard or regular form; performing the proper functions; not abnormal; regular; natural; analogical.
• (a.) Standard; original; exact; typical.
• (a.) A straight line or plane drawn from any point of a curve or surface so as to be perpendicular to the curve or surface at that point.