English

lognormal

From log + normal.

A compound of log + normal

Middle English logge ‘large long stick’

English log

Latin nōrma ‘carpenter's square’

Latin nōrmālis ‘made according to a carpenter's square’

Today it means

adj Describing a logarithmic function that has a normal distribution.

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Etymograph / lognormal