Adjective

(en adjective)

According to norms or rules.

Healthy; not sick or ill.

Pertaining to a school to teach teachers how to teach.

(chemistry) Of, relating to, or being a solution containing one equivalent weight of solute per litre of solution.

(organic chemistry) Describing a straight chain isomer of an aliphatic hydrocarbon, or an aliphatic compound in which a substituent is in the 1- position of such a hydrocarbon.

(physics) (Of a mode in an oscillating system ) In which all parts of an object vibrate at the same frequency; See .

(geometry) Perpendicular to a tangent line or derivative of a surface in Euclidean space.

* The interior normal vector of a ideal perfect sphere will always point toward the center, and the exterior normal vector directly away, and both will always be co-linear with the ray whose' tip ends at the point of intersection, which is the intersection of all three sets of points.

(algebra) (Of a subgroup) whose cosets form a group.

(algebra) (Of a field extension of a field K) which is the splitting field of a family of polynomials in K.

(probability theory, statistics) (Of a distribution) which has a very specific bell curve shape.

(complex analysis) (Of a family of continuous functions) which is pre-compact.

(set theory) (Of a function from the ordinals to the ordinals) which is strictly monotonically increasing and continuous with respect to the order topology.

(linear algebra) (Of a matrix) which commutes with its conjugate transpose.

(functional analysis) (Of a Hilbert space operator) which commutes with its adjoint.

(category theory) (Of an epimorphism) which is the cokernel of some morphism.

(category theory) (Of a monomorphism) which is the kernel of some morphism.

(category theory) (Of a morphism) which is a normal epimorphism or a normal monomorphism.

(category theory) (Of a category) in which every monomorphism is normal.

(Of a real number) whose digits, in any base representation, enjoy a uniform distribution.

(topology) (Of a topology) in which disjoint closed sets can be separated by disjoint neighborhoods.

(rail transport, Of points) in the default position, set for the most frequently used route.

Adjective

(en adjective)

(label) The same in all respects.

* (1671-1743)

They who are not disposed to receive them may let them alone or reject them; it is equal to me.

Exactly identical, having the same value.

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(label) Fair, impartial.

* 1644 , (John Milton), (Aeropagitica) :

it could not but much redound to the lustre of your milde and equall Government, when as private persons are hereby animated to thinke ye better pleas'd with publick advice, then other statists have been delighted heretofore with publicke flattery.

* Bible, (w) xviii. 29

Are not my ways equal ?

* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

Thee, O Jove, no equal judge I deem.

(label) Adequate; sufficiently capable or qualified.

* 1881 , (Jane Austen), , p. 311

her comprehension was certainly more equal to the covert meaning, the superior intelligence, of those five letters so arranged.

* (1609-1674)

The Scots trusted not their own numbers as equal to fight with the English.

* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)

It is not permitted to me to make my commendations equal to your merit.

* (Ralph Waldo Emerson) (1803-1882)

whose voice an equal messenger / Conveyed thy meaning mild.

(label) Not variable; equable; uniform; even.

* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)

an equal temper

(label) Intended for voices of one kind only, either all male or all female; not mixed.