Difference between Average and Normal

What is the difference between Average and Normal?

Average as a noun is the arithmetic mean. while Normal as a noun is a line or vector that is perpendicular to another line, a surface, or a plane.

Average

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The arithmetic mean. Any measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode (see Usage notes below). An indication of a player's ability calculated from his scoring record, etc.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Constituting or relating to the average. Neither very good nor very bad; rated somewhere in the middle of all others in the same category. Typical. Bad or undesirable.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To compute the arithmetic mean of. Over a period of time or across members of a population, to have or generate a mean value of.

Example sentence: Globalization means we have to re-examine some of our ideas, and look at ideas from other countries, from other cultures, and open ourselves to them. And that's not comfortable for the average person.

Normal

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A line or vector that is perpendicular to another line, a surface, or a plane.A person who is normal, who fits into mainstream society, as opposed to those who live alternative lifestyles.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: According to norms or rules.Usual; ordinaryHealthy; not sick or illPertaining to a school to teach teachers how to teach.Heterosexual.of, relating to, or being a solution containing one equivalent weight of solute per litre of solution.(Of a mode in an oscillating system) In which all parts of an object vibrate at the same frequency; See normal modePerpendicular to a tangent line or derivative of a surface in Euclidean space.(Of a subgroup) whose cosets form a group(Of a field extension of a field K) which is the splitting field of a family of polynomials in K(Of a distribution) which has a very specific bell curve shape(Of a family of continuous functions) which is pre-compact(Of a function from the ordinals to the ordinals) which is strictly monotonically increasing and continuous with respect to the order topology(Of a matrix) which commutes with its conjugate transpose(Of a Hilbert space operator) which commutes with its adjoint(Of an epimorphism) which is the cokernel of some morphism(Of a monomorphism) which is the kernel of some morphism(Of a morphism) which is a normal epimorphism or a normal monomorphism(Of a category) in which every monomorphism is normal(Of a real number) whose digits, in any base representation, enjoy a uniform distribution(Of a topology) in which disjoint closed sets can be separated by disjoint neighborhoodsin the default position, set for the most frequently used route.

Example sentence: I'm not a tech guy. I'm looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people's eyes.

We hope you now know whether to use Average or Normal in your sentence.

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