antinormal
/ˈæn.tiˌnɔɹm(ə)l/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Antagonistic to or causing deviations from that which is considered normal.
adj
Perpendicular to a tangent of a curve or tangent plane of a surface but pointing opposite to convention.
noun
A normal that points opposite to convention. For example, in solid geometry it is conventional for normals to point outwards, so an antinormal in solid geometry refers to a normal pointing inwards.
Example Sentences
- "We obtained further information on the antitumor and antinormal antibodies remaining after absorption by testing both types of antiserum against mitochondria from normal lung and normal liver and after absorption with normal lung, normal liver, and sheep red-blood cells."
- "Thus, all red-cell eluates containing complement components, always revealed the presence of both antinormal and antinull activity."
- "Thus, while business spokesmen often used terms such as normal, new normal basis, normality, and even normalcy, they used them optimistically to describe antinormal economic conditions in the sense that they were unprecedented according to prewar standards."
- "The piling may, however, be either the normal piling of Prof. Reynolds, or the antinormal piling described by Prof. Everett, or a combination of the two."
- "In the machine having antinormal rotation the engine will be running in the opposite direction, taking the left-hand propeller for the tractor and the right-hand for the pusher."
- "It is found that normally ordered power series exist and converge quite generally, but that for the case of antinormal ordering the required c-number coefficients are infinite for important classes of operators."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈæn.tiˌnɔɹm(ə)l/