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)

(obsolete)  Deviating from the norm; unusual, extraordinary.

*, New York 2001, p.105:

all shall be rather enforced than hindered, except they be dismembered, or grievously deformed, infirm, or visited with some enormous hereditary disease is body or mind.

(obsolete)  Exceedingly wicked; atrocious or outrageous.

*, II.12:

how apt wee are to receive all impressions, and chiefly the most wicked and enormous .

Extremely large; greatly exceeding the common size, extent, etc.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=28, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= High and wet , passage=Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages. Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.}}

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.}}