norm
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[edit] Etymology 1
From Latin norma (“a carpenter's square, a rule, a pattern, a precept”).
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norm (plural norms)
- (usually definite, the norm) That which is regarded as normal or typical.
- Unemployment is the norm in this part of the country.
- 2011 December 16, Denis Campbell, “Hospital staff 'lack skills to cope with dementia patients'”, Guardian:
- "This shocking report proves once again that we urgently need a radical shake-up of hospital care," said Jeremy Hughes, chief executive of the Alzheimer's Society. "Given that people with dementia occupy a quarter of hospital beds and that many leave in worse health than when they were admitted, it is unacceptable that training in dementia care is not the norm."
- A rule that is enforced by members of a community.
- Not eating your children is just one of those societal norms.
- (philosophy, computer science) A sentence with non-descriptive meaning, such as a command, permission, or prohibition.
- (mathematics) A function, generally denoted
or
, that maps vectors to non-negative scalars and has the following properties:
- if
then
; - given a scalar k,
, where
is the absolute value of k; - given two vectors v,w,
(the triangle inequality).
- if
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that which is normal
in analysis
rule that is enforced by members of a community
[edit] Etymology 2
Back-formation from normed.
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norm (third-person singular simple present norms, present participle norming, simple past and past participle normed)
- (analysis) To endow (a vector space, etc) with a norm.
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[edit] External links
- norm in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- norm in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
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norm
- norm (that which is normal)
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Inflection of norm
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audio (file)
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norm c.
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Declension of norm
or
, that
then
;
, where
is the
(the