单词 | normally |
释义 | normallyadv.ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > [adverb] > methodically regularlyc1475 methodically1570 normally1598 systematically1646 regular1704 scientifically1764 hand over hand1824 1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 50/2 Thervnto are many thinges reqvired, which I heere normallye and rightlye will prosecute. 1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 102/2 Applye the same on his Breste, 3 or 4 nightes normallye after other. 2. Under normal or ordinary conditions; as a rule, ordinarily. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adverb] > usually or customarily > usually or in usual circumstances commonly1340 commona1400 ordinarily1555 ordinarly1557 ordinary1614 formally1627 normally1843 1843 ‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase I. xxx. 277 Normally, it is said, the lay and clerical delegates are on equal footing in the House. 1861 G. J. Goschen Theory Foreign Exchanges 94 Every kind of produce, which normally..would have risen in value. 1882 F. W. Farrar Early Days Christianity I. 161 Normally, and as a whole, human law is on the side of divine order. 1917 Flying 1 217/1 A stable aeroplane has its centre of gravity well forward, and normally the centre of pressure is behind the centre of gravity. 1956 S. Bedford Legacy iii. vi. 200 They say it takes three weeks normally. I want it now. 1994 N. Parker Parkhurst Tales vi. 60 His normally cheerful face was uncharacteristically grim as he made his rounds. 3. In a normal manner; in the usual way. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adverb] > usually or customarily > in the usual or ordinary way formally1607 regularly1720 ordinarily1831 normally1856 1856 Provinc. Freeman (Electronic text) 25 Nov. Modern free society..is radically wrong and rotten. It is self-destroying, and can never exist happily and normally until it is qualified by the introduction of some principle equivalent in effect to the institution of Southern negro Slavery. 1871 J. S. Blackie Four Phases Morals i. 70 Constant action and reaction in every normally developed human mind. 1910 Practitioner July 106 The uterus had involuted normally. 1957 Economist 9 Nov. 525/2 Because of their radioactivity, none of the materials can be handled normally. 2001 Pract. Fishkeeping Feb. 86/1 House the fish in a fish-trap until it has recovered and is swimming normally. 4. At right angles; perpendicularly. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > position at right angles to something > [adverb] straightly1395 squarewise1546 directly1559 orthogonally?a1560 perpendicularly1570 rightly1594 square1631 rectangularly1646 right-angular1676 normally1869 squarely1873 the world > relative properties > number > geometry > angle > [adverb] > at right angles in a square?a1560 orthogonally?a1560 by equiangles1593 rectangularly1646 right-angularly1670 square1680 normally1869 squarely1873 1869 Fortn. Rev. Feb. 246 When we look normally, or perpendicularly, at an incipient cloud. 1898 Philos. Trans. 1897 (Royal. Soc.) A. 190 120 Let the incident light fall normally on the surface z = 0. 1957 G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. I. vi. 390 In nature, the light from the main source of illumination, the sun, will seldom fall normally on the water surface. 1981 M. A. Parker & F. Pickup Engin. Drawing (ed. 3) ii. 42 Any section through a sphere projects as a circle when viewed normally. 1997 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 453 926 If the incident wave is homogeneous and not normally incident. 5. Statistics. In accordance with normal distribution. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > probability or statistics > [adverb] > in accordance with a particular distribution normally1885 binomially1889 modally1936 log-normally1945 1877 F. Galton in Proc. Royal Inst. 9 Feb. 292 [The] produce of peas of the same class deviated normally on either side of their own mean weight.] 1885 F. Galton in Jubilee Vol. Statist. Soc. 264 It is usually found that a series of observed values are ‘normally’ variable. 1928 T. C. Fry Probability & its Engin. Uses viii. 243 It is absurd to speak of a man of negative height:..it simply cannot occur. Yet if height were distributed normally, the second property of the Law would assign a finite probability to this absurdity. 1951 W. J. Dixon & F. J. Massey Introd. Statistical Anal. v. 63 Often a research worker has sufficient data and enough experience..to be able to specify the type of transformation of measurement which will give a normally distributed variable. 1993 Brit. Jrnl. Surg. 80 166/1 It should not be assumed that the quality-of-life scores of a given population are distributed normally. Compounds normally aspirated adj. Engineering designating or relating to an internal combustion engine which is not turbocharged or supercharged. ΚΠ 1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 583/1 Normally aspirated engine, an unsupercharged or unboosted petrol or oil engine. 1971 Flying Apr. 118/2 Cruise with the normally aspirated model. 1992 Autosport 23 Apr. 81/1 A 2.5-litre normally-aspirated Cosworth engine..will power the 680kg car. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1598 |
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