The difference between Natural and Normal

When used as nouns, natural means a native inhabitant of a place, country etc, whereas normal means a line or vector that is perpendicular to another line, surface, or plane.

When used as adjectives, natural means that exists and evolved within the confines of an ecosystem, whereas normal means according to norms or rules.

check bellow for the other definitions of Natural and Normal

  1. Natural as an adjective:

    That exists and evolved within the confines of an ecosystem.

    Examples:

    "The species will be under threat if its natural habitat is destroyed."

  2. Natural as an adjective:

    Of or relating to nature.

    Examples:

    "In the natural world the fit tend to live on while the weak perish."

  3. Natural as an adjective:

    Without artificial additives.

    Examples:

    "'Natural food is healthier than processed food."

  4. Natural as an adjective:

    As expected; reasonable.

    Examples:

    "It's natural for business to be slow on Tuesdays."

    "His prison sentence was the natural consequence of a life of crime."

  5. Natural as an adjective (music):

    Neither sharp nor flat. Denoted ♮.

    Examples:

    "There's a wrong note here: it should be C natural instead of C sharp."

  6. Natural as an adjective (music):

    Produced by natural organs, such as those of the human throat, in distinction from instrumental music.

  7. Natural as an adjective (music):

    Applied to an air or modulation of harmony which moves by easy and smooth transitions, digressing but little from the original key.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Moore (Encyc. of Music)"

  8. Natural as an adjective (math):

    Having 1 as the base of the system, of a function or number.

  9. Natural as an adjective (dice):

    Without, or prior to, modification or adjustment. The result of a dice roll before bonuses or penalties are added to or subtracted from the result.

    Examples:

    "the natural motion of a gravitating body"

    "The chairs were all natural oak but the table had a lurid finish."

    "So-called second-generation [[w:Breast implant silicone breast implants]] looked and felt more like the natural breast."

  10. Natural as an adjective:

    Having the character or sentiments properly belonging to one's position; not unnatural in feelings.

  11. Natural as an adjective (obsolete):

    Connected by the ties of consanguinity.

  12. Natural as an adjective (obsolete):

    Born out of wedlock; illegitimate; bastard.

    Examples:

    "a natural child"

  13. Natural as an adjective (of sexual intercourse):

    Without a condom.

    Examples:

    "We made natural love."

  1. Natural as a noun (now, _, rare):

    A native inhabitant of a place, country etc.

  2. Natural as a noun (music):

    A note that is not or is no longer to be modified by an accidental, or the symbol ♮ used to indicate such a note.

  3. Natural as a noun:

    One with an innate talent at or for something.

    Examples:

    "He's a natural on the saxophone."

  4. Natural as a noun:

    An almost white colour, with tints of grey, yellow or brown; originally that of natural fabric.

    Examples:

    "color paneFAD6A5"

  5. Natural as a noun (archaic):

    One with a simple mind; a fool or idiot.

  6. Natural as a noun (colloquial, chiefly, _, UK):

    One's natural life.

  7. Natural as a noun (US, colloquial):

    A hairstyle for people with afro-textured hair in which the hair is not straightened or otherwise treated.

  8. Natural as a noun (algebra):

    Closed under submodules, direct sums, and injective hulls.

  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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