norm
//nɔːm//
formalForms
- Plural
- norms
- present (v1)
- norm
- past (v2)
- normed
- past participle (v3)
- normed
- present participle
- norming
- 3rd person singular
- norms
Definitions
1.That which is normal or typical.
- Unemployment is the norm in this part of the country.
- Projects such as the King's Cross refurbishment, Waterloo blockade, Scottish electrification and the Borders show that the industry can do wonderful work - but that must become the norm, not the exception.
2.A rule that is imposed by regulations and/or socially enforced by members of a community.
- Not eating your children is just one of those societal norms.
- Peer pressure helps explain why people in Europe weigh less than Americans: They follow different social norms, like eating only at mealtimes instead of snacking throughout the day.
3.A sentence with non-descriptive meaning, such as a command, permission, or prohibition.
4.A function which satisfies a particular set of formal conditions, created to generalize the notion of the length of a vector. Formally, a real-valued function on a vector space, generally denoted v↦|v| or v↦‖v‖, that satisfies the following properties:
1.To endow (a vector space, etc.) with a norm.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #3464
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Uncommon
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Etymology
From Latin norma (“a carpenter's square, a rule, a pattern, a precept”).
Doublet of norma.