释义 |
normally, adv.|ˈnɔːməlɪ| [f. normal a. + -ly.] †1. In a regular manner; regularly. Obs. rare.
1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 50/2 Thervnto are many thinges reqvired, which I heere normallye and rightlye will prosecute. 1599― tr. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physicke 102/2 Applye the same on his Breste, 3 or 4 nightes normallye after other. 2. Under normal or ordinary conditions.
1853Carpenter Princ. Hum. Physiol. (ed. 3) §224 The mode in which the first production of tendons and ligaments is normally accomplished. 1861Goschen For. Exch. 94 Every kind of produce, which normally..would have risen in value. 1882Farrar Early Chr. I. 161 Normally, and as a whole, human law is on the side of divine order. 3. In a normal manner; in the usual way.
1871Blackie Four Phases Mor. i. 70 Constant action and reaction in every normally developed human mind. 4. At right angles.
1869Tyndall in Fortn. Rev. Feb. 246 When we look normally, or perpendicularly, at an incipient cloud. 5. Statistics. In accordance with the normal distribution.
1928T. C. Fry Probability & its Engin. Uses viii. 243 It is absurd to speak of a man of negative height:..it simply cannot occur. Yet if height were distributed normally, the second property of the Law would assign a finite probability to this absurdity. 1951Dixon & Massey Introd. Statistical Anal. v. 63 Often a research worker has sufficient data and enough experience..to be able to specify the type of transformation of measurement which will give a normally distributed variable. 1971Nature 3 Sept. 19/1, I take as my datum the fact that Englishmen are normally distributed in height with a mean of 5 feet 8 inches. |