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norm
/noɹm/
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What does norm mean?
noun
- That which is normal or typical.
- A rule that is imposed by regulations and/or socially enforced by members of a community.
- A required level of achievement.
More meanings (11)
noun
- A sentence with non-descriptive meaning, such as a command, permission, or prohibition.
- if v ne 0 then ‖v‖ ne 0;
- given a scalar k, ‖kv‖=|k|·‖v‖, where |k| is the absolute value of k;
- given two vectors v,w, ‖v+w‖<‖v‖+‖w‖ (the triangle inequality).
- Any of several generalizations of the above: a field norm, ideal norm, etc.
- An element of the image of some (generalized) norm, the element then said to be from the norm in question, or from the structure which gave rise to the norm.
- A high level of performance in a chess tournament, several of which are required for a player to receive a title.
- Initialism of naturally occurring radioactive materials.
- Initialism of nonmobile older rural male, the target conservative informant for documenting dialects and regional accents.
verb
- To endow (a vector space, etc.) with a norm.
proper noun
- A diminutive of the male given name Norman.
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IPA pronunciation
/noɹm/
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A general norm of valuation was applied to woman and the result showed that woman is simply a less worthy creature.
In point of practical fact, the norm of conspicuous waste is incompatible with the requirement that dress should be beautiful or becoming.
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The order of battle is that division and formation of the different arms into separate parts or sections of the whole Army, and that form of general position or disposition of those parts which is to be the norm throughout the whole campaign or war.
The appeal actually made to him in his own personal realization fixes his attitude much more deeply than what he has been taught as the proper thing to say; his habitual disposition thus fixed forms his real "norm" of valuation in subsequent musical experiences.
The stranger had sojourned in many more lands and among many more peoples than Angel; to his cosmopolitan mind such deviations from the social norm, so immense to domesticity, were no more than are the irregularities of vale and mountain-chain to the whole terrestrial curve.