Everything was under control; all test instruments gave normal readings.

He scanned himself and compared the result with his normal cellular readings.

As a friend of mine says, it's like taking your pulse while you're running and calling that a normal reading.

As a result, he said, electrical problems could develop within the machine so it might give normal readings, even when a child was in distress.

He noticed to his alarm that the oil temperature gauge was twice its normal reading.

As he cruised around to land the oil temperature resumed a normal reading.

In this case, there's a series of higher than normal readings, headed more or less in a line.

Anything under 25 is considered a normal reading of the index.

But a child can be near death and still have a normal reading.

How should this disorder be interpreted in relation to a model of normal reading?