Normal to a 3 Dimensional line

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So I have a 3D line: $(0, 0, 0)+t(3, 4, 7)$

and I'm trying to find the normal of this. I know the gradient of the normal would normally be $\frac{-1}{\text{gradient}}$ but I'm not sure how you would find the gradient with 3 dimensions.

Any help would be much appreciated!

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A line in 3D has a normal plane, which is here for instance spanned by the vectors (4,-3,0) and (1,1,-1). Therefore, there is no "the" normal vector. Please provide more context.