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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB educationally ▪ It provides special education, as noted in Chapter 4, for educationally subnormal children and for those previously described as ineducable. ▪ More than half the total number were categorized as ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a person of less than normal intelligence
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1875, from sub- + normal . The noun is from 1710 in geometry; 1916, of persons.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Subnormal may refer to: subnormal body temperature, a common term for hypothermia subnormal operator , a type of operator in operator theory in mathematics subnormal number, another name for a denormal number in floating point arithmetic subnormal profit, ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Less than normal. 2 (context computing theory English) denormal n. (context geometry English) That part of the axis of a curved line which is intercepted between the ordinate and the normal.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Subnormal \Sub*nor"mal\, n. (Geom.) That part of the axis of a curved line which is intercepted between the ordinate and the normal.
Usage examples of subnormal.
Dogged biometricians had pointed out with irrefutable logic that mental subnormals were outbreeding mental normals and supemormals, and that the process was occurring on an exponential curve.
Dogged biometricians had pointed out with irrefutable logic thai mental subnormals were outbreeding mental normals and supernormal and that the process was occurring on an exponential curve.
Research protocols no longer only explained hereditary differences and racial subtypes, but now directed public policy on how to screen for the racial quality of given populations and rid the society of subnormal racial categories.
The butler looks to me a bit of a rascal, and that parlormaid is definitely subnormal.
An android, no matter how gifted as to pure intellectual capacity, could make no sense out of the fusion which took place routinely among the followers of Mercerism — an experience which he, and virtually everyone else, including subnormal chickenheads, managed with no difficulty.
On giving him an eye test I found the vision of that eye subnormal in all ways.
The only survivors of that would have been mental subnormals, mutants that hadn't been killed because their Protectors had gone off to war.