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How did "normal" come to mean "perpendicular"?

How and when did the word "normal" acquire this meaning? When I first thought of this, I couldn't really come up with any explanation that wasn't complete speculation -- pretty much all I was able to …
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What are the monoids in which every globally idempotent subsemigroup contains the identity e...

A semigroup is called globally idempotent when for any $x\in S$ there are $y,z\in S$ such that $x=yz$. Is there a name for monoids whose every globally idempotent subsemigroup contains the identity e …
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Who coined "mob" and "clan" and why these words?

A mob is a word used for a topological semigroup which is a Hausdorff space. A clan is a compact connected mob with a two-sided identity element. Who used these words with these meanings first and wh …
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