antinormal

adj

1. (not-comparable)Antagonistic to or causing deviations from that which is considered normal.

   “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.”

2. (not-comparable)In the opposite direction or position from what is normal or canonical.

   “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.”

   “The antinormal form studied in this section can be considered as the most scattered form of an SG: Each relation node is disconnected from the other relation nodes and there are no multiple edges.”

   “The calculated MET results for speeds 2 and 3 MPH are presented in Fig. 6.4 and Fig. 6.5 which indicate that folded arm, antinormal, and blind-folded modes of arm swinging had a significant increase in MET values as compared to normal one consequently resulted in a significant net increase in metabolic rates.”

3. (not-comparable)Perpendicular to a tangent of a curve or tangent plane of a surface but pointing opposite to convention.

noun

1. 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.