Normal

Normal may refer to:

Film and television

• Normal (2003 film), starring Jessica Lange and Tom Wilkinson
• Normal (2007 film), starring Carrie-Anne Moss, Kevin Zegers, Callum Keith Rennie, and Andrew Airlie
• Normal (2009 film), an adaptation of Anthony Neilson's 1991 play Normal: The Düsseldorf Ripper
• Normal!, a 2011 Algerian film
• "Normal" (New Girl), episode of the TV series

Mathematics

• Normal (geometry), an object such as a line or vector that is perpendicular to a given object
• Normal basis (of a Galois extension), used heavily in cryptography
• Normal bundle
• Normal cone, of a subscheme in algebraic geometry
• Normal coordinates, in differential geometry, local coordinates obtained from the exponential map (Riemannian geometry)
• Normal distribution, the Gaussian continuous probability distribution
• Normal equations, describing the solution of the linear least squares problem
• Normal extensions (or quasi-Galois), field extensions, splitting fields for a set of polynomials over the base field
• Normal family, a pre-compact family of continuous functions
• Normal function, in set theory
• Normal invariants, in geometric topology
• Normal matrix, a matrix that commutes with its conjugate transpose
• Normal measure, in set theory
• Normal number, a real number with a "uniform" distribution of digits
• Normal operator, an operator that commutes with its Hermitian adjoint
• Normal order of an arithmetic function, a type of asymptotic behavior useful in number theory
• Normal polytopes, in polyhedral geometry and computational commutative algebra
• Normal ring, a reduced ring whose localizations at prime ideals are integrally closed domains
• Normal scheme, a scheme whose local rings are normal domains
• Normal sequence (disambiguation), either a normal function or a representation of a normal number
• Normal space (or ), spaces, topological spaces characterized by separation of closed sets
• Normal subgroup, a subgroup invariant under conjugation

Music

• Normal (album), a 2005 album by Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal
• "Normal" (Alonzo song)
• "Normal" (Eminem song)
• "Normal", a song by Gucci Mane
• "Normal", a song by Porcupine Tree from Nil Recurring
• The Normals (New Orleans band), 1970s punk band
• The Normals, a Christian alternative rock band from Illinois formed in 1998

Places

• Normal, Alabama
• Normal, Illinois
• Normal, Indiana
• Normal, Kentucky

Other

• Norm (social), collective representations of acceptable group conduct
• Normal concentration, a measure of concentration for a chemical in a solution
• Normal goods, a concept used in economics
• Normal modes, of vibration in an oscillating system
• Normal order, or Wick order in Quantum Field Theory
• Normal school, a school created to train high school graduates to be teachers
• Charles Normal (born 1965)
• Henry Normal (born 1956), English comedian

See also

• Norm (disambiguation)
• Normal closure (disambiguation)
• Normal Field (disambiguation)
• Normal form (disambiguation)
• Normal order (disambiguation)
• Normal Township (disambiguation)
• Normality (disambiguation)
• Normalization (disambiguation)
• Leaving Normal (disambiguation)
• New Normal (disambiguation)
• Usual (disambiguation)