The difference between Average and Normal

When used as nouns, average means the arithmetic mean, whereas normal means a line or vector that is perpendicular to another line, surface, or plane.

When used as adjectives, average means constituting or relating to the average, whereas normal means according to norms or rules.

Average is also verb with the meaning: to compute the average of, especially the arithmetic mean.

check bellow for the other definitions of Average and Normal

  1. Average as a noun (mathematics):

    The arithmetic mean.

    Examples:

    "The average of 10, 20 and 24 is (10 + 20 + 24)/3 = 18."

  2. Average as a noun (statistics):

    Any measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode.

  3. Average as a noun (legal, marine):

    Financial loss due to damage to transported goods; compensation for damage or loss.

  4. Average as a noun:

    Customs duty or similar charge payable on transported goods.

  5. Average as a noun:

    Proportional or equitable distribution of financial expense.

  6. Average as a noun (sports):

    An indication of a player's ability calculated from his scoring record, etc.

    Examples:

    "batting average'"

  7. Average as a noun (UK, in the plural):

    In the corn trade, the medial price of the several kinds of grain in the principal corn markets.

  1. Average as an adjective (not comparable):

    Constituting or relating to the average.

    Examples:

    "The average age of the participants was 18.5."

  2. Average as an adjective:

    Neither very good nor very bad; rated somewhere in the middle of all others in the same category.

    Examples:

    "I soon found I was only an average chess player."

  3. Average as an adjective:

    Typical.

    Examples:

    "The average family will not need the more expensive features of this product."

  4. Average as an adjective (informal):

    Not outstanding, not good, banal; bad or poor.

  1. Average as a verb (transitive):

    To compute the average of, especially the arithmetic mean.

    Examples:

    "If you average 10, 20 and 24, you get 18."

  2. Average as a verb (transitive):

    Over a period of time or across members of a population, to have or generate a mean value of.

    Examples:

    "The daily high temperature last month averaged 15°C."

    "I averaged 75% in my examinations this year."

  3. Average as a verb (transitive):

    To divide among a number, according to a given proportion.

    Examples:

    "to average a loss"

  4. Average as a verb (intransitive):

    To be, generally or on average.

  1. Average as a noun (UK, legal, obsolete):

    The service that a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the animals of the tenant, such as the transportation of wheat, turf, etc.

  1. Normal as an adjective:

    according to norms or rules

    Examples:

    "Organize the data into third normal form."

  2. Normal as an adjective:

    healthy; not sick or ill

    Examples:

    "John is feeling normal again."

  3. Normal as an adjective (education, of a school):

    teaching teachers how to teach

    Examples:

    "My grandmother attended Mankato State Normal School."

  4. Normal as an adjective (chemistry):

    of, relating to, or being a solution containing one equivalent weight of solute per litre of solution

  5. Normal as an adjective (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

  6. Normal as an adjective (physics, of a mode in an oscillating system):

    in which all parts of an object vibrate at the same frequency

  7. Normal as an adjective (rail transport, of points):

    in the default position, set for the most frequently used route

  8. Normal as an adjective (geometry):

    perpendicular to a tangent of a curve or derivative of a surface

  9. Normal as an adjective (mathematics):

    adhering to or being what is considered natural or regular in a particular field or context: whose digits, in any base representation, enjoy a uniform distribution with cosets which form a group which is the splitting field of a family of polynomials in K which has a very specific bell curve shape; that is or has the qualities of a normal distribution which has a normal distribution; which is associated with random variable that has a normal distribution which is pre-compact which is strictly monotonically increasing and continuous with respect to the order topology which commutes with its conjugate transpose which commutes with its adjoint being (as a morphism) or containing (as a category) only normal epimorphism(s) or monomorphism(s), that is, those which are the kernel or cokernel of some morphism, respectively in which disjoint closed sets can be separated by disjoint neighborhoods

  1. Normal as a noun (geometry):

    a line or vector that is perpendicular to another line, surface, or plane.

  2. Normal as a noun (slang, countable):

    a person who is normal, who fits into mainstream society, as opposed to those who live alternative lifestyles.

  3. Normal as a noun (uncountable):

    the usual state.

    Examples:

    "His workload is now back to normal."

    "Heavy workload is the new normal."

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