Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: How did the Spelling Police miss this one? | From | Steven Cole <> | Date | 24 Apr 2003 19:39:19 -0600 |
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On Thu, 2003-04-24 at 17:25, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > Al Viro wrote: > > > >> On the other hand, "canonicalize", while strange and new, unambiguously > >> means (b). > >> > >> Is there an already-existing word which means (b)? > > > >% webster normalize > > > There is a subtle difference between 'normal' and 'canonical', > but I can't quite put my finger on it.
Another sense of "normal" is as in "normal vector", which is perpendicular or orthogonal to a surface. Orthogonal is a good description of what this thread has become, but that's normal.
Steven
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