norm

See also: Norm and NORM

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /nɔːm/
• (General American) enPR: nôrm, IPA: /nɔɹm/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)m

Etymology 1

From French norme, from Old French, from Latin norma (“a carpenter's square, a rule, a pattern, a precept”).

Noun

norm (plural norms)

1. That which is normal or typical.

   Unemployment is the norm in this part of the country.

   • 2008, Dennis Patterson, Ari Afilalo, The New Global Trading Order: The Evolving State and the Future of Trade:

     […] the world needs a constitutional moment that will generate new institutions and actuate a new norm.

   • 2011 December 16, Denis Campbell, “Hospital staff 'lack skills to cope with dementia patients'”, in Guardian‎^[1]:

     "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."

   • 2019 December 18, Richard Clinnick, “Railway's 2020 vision”, in Rail, page 3:

     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.

   • 2011, Roy F. Baumeister, John Tierney, Willpower, →ISBN, page 230:

     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. (philosophy, computer science) A sentence with non-descriptive meaning, such as a command, permission, or prohibition.
5. (mathematics) A function, generally denoted $v\mapsto \left|v\right|$ or $v\mapsto \left\|v\right\|$, that maps vectors to non-negative scalars and has the following properties:
   1. if $v\neq 0$ then $\left\|v\right\|\neq 0$;
   2. given a scalar $k$, $\left\|kv\right\|=\left|k\right|\cdot \left\|v\right\|$, where $\left|k\right|$ is the absolute value of $k$;
   3. given two vectors $v,w$, $\left\|v+w\right\|\leq \left\|v\right\|+\left\|w\right\|$ (the triangle inequality).
6. (chess) A high level of performance in a chess tournament, several of which are required for a player to receive a title.

Hyponyms

• (mathematics): absolute value, p-adic absolute value, trivial absolute value

Derived terms

• 1-norm
• 2-norm
• absolute norm
• adnorm
• age norm
• Banach norm
• basic norm
• Bombieri norm
• C*-cross norm
• Chebyshev norm
• complex norm
• copynorm
• Cr-norm
• cross norm
• Dedekind-Hasse norm
• dual norm
• ethical norm
• Euclidean matrix norm
• Euclidean norm
• Euclidean vector norm
• exonorm
• extended norm
• field norm
• flat norm
• four-vector norm
• Frobenius matrix norm
• Frobenius norm
• Frobenius norm function
• grandmaster norm
• graph norm
• Hardy norm
• Hilbert-Schmidt norm
• ideological norm
• induced norm
• infinity-norm
• integral flat norm
• l1 norm
• l2 norm
• L-infinity norm
• mass norm
• matrix F-norm
• matrix norm
• matrix p-norm
• maximum absolute row column norm
• maximum absolute row sum norm
• maximum norm
• metric induced by a norm
• minimum norm property
• Minkowski norm
• Mistralian norm
• moral norm
• natural norm
• normable
• normcore
• normed
• norm form
• norm function
• normic form
• normie
• normless
• normlessness
• norm of an ideal
• norm of communism
• norm of disinterestedness
• norm of organized skepticism
• norm of reaction
• norm of reciprocity
• norm of universalism
• norm-referenced
• norm-referencing
• norm-residue
• norm resolvent convergence
• norm theorem
• nuclear norm
• operator norm
• p-adic norm
• peremptory norm
• p-norm
• polynomial bar norm
• polynomial bracket norm
• polynomial norm
• pseudonorm
• quaternion norm
• reduced norm
• regular norm
• relative norm
• semi-norm
• seminorm
• sexual norm
• social norm
• spectral norm
• spinorial norm
• spinor norm
• statistical norm
• subordinate norm
• sup norm
• sup-norm
• supremum norm
• t-norm
• T-norm
• tobacco-free social norm
• trace norm
• uniform norm
• vector norm
• vector p-norm

 

Related terms

• abnormity
• abnormous
• normal
• normated
• normatic
• normative
• normo-

Translations

that which is normal

• Bashkir: норма (norma)
• Belarusian: но́рма f (nórma)
• Bulgarian: но́рма (bg) f (nórma)
• Catalan: norma (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 規範／规范 (zh) (guīfàn)

• Czech: norma (cs) f
• Danish: norm (da) c
• Dutch: norm (nl) f
• Esperanto: normo
• Finnish: normi (fi)
• French: norme (fr) f
• Georgian: ნორმა (norma)
• German: Regel (de) f, Norm (de) f
• Greek: κριτήριο (el) n (kritírio)

  Ancient: κριτήριον n (kritḗrion)

• Hungarian: norma (hu)
• Icelandic: norm n
• Ingrian: norma
• Italian: norma (it) f
• Japanese: 規 (ja) (のり, nori), 規範 (ja) (きはん, kihan), ノルマ (noruma)
• Korean: 규범(規範) (ko) (gyubeom)
• Latin: norma f
• Norwegian: norm (no)
• Persian: هنجار‎ (fa) (hanjâr), نُرم‎ (fa) (norm), معیار‎ (fa) (me'yâr)
• Polish: norma (pl) f
• Portuguese: norma (pt) f
• Romanian: normă (ro) f
• Russian: но́рма (ru) f (nórma)
• Slovak: norma f
• Spanish: norma (es) f
• Swedish: norm (sv)
• Ukrainian: но́рма (uk) f (nórma)

rule that is enforced by members of a community

• Bashkir: норма (norma)
• Bulgarian: правило (bg) n (pravilo)
• Catalan: norma (ca) f
• Czech: norma (cs) f
• Finnish: normi (fi)
• German: Norm (de) f
• Indonesian: norma (id)
• Italian: norma (it) f
• Japanese: 規範 (ja)
• Korean: 규범(規範) (ko) (gyubeom)
• Occitan: nòrma (oc) f, (Mistralian) normo f
• Persian: هنجار‎ (fa) (hanjâr), نرم‎ (fa) (norm)
• Portuguese: norma (pt) f
• Romanian: regulă (ro) f, normă (ro) f
• Russian: но́рма (ru) f (nórma)
• Spanish: norma (es) f
• Ukrainian: но́рма (uk) f (nórma)

philosophy, computer science: sentence with non-descriptive meaning

math: function that maps vectors to non-negative scalars

• Danish: norm (da) c
• Finnish: normi (fi)
• French: norme (fr) f
• German: Norm (de) f
• Hungarian: norma (hu)
• Italian: norma (it) f
• Persian: نرم‎ (fa) (norm)
• Polish: norma (pl) f
• Russian: норма (ru) f (norma)
• Swedish: norm (sv)

chess: high level of performance

Etymology 2

Back-formation from normed.

Verb

norm (third-person singular simple present norms, present participle norming, simple past and past participle normed)

1. (mathematical analysis) To endow (a vector space, etc.) with a norm.

Derived terms

• norming

Translations

To endow with a norm

• Bulgarian: нормирам (bg) (normiram)
• Dutch: normeren (nl)
• French: normer (fr)
• German: normieren (de)

See also

• normalize, normalise

Further reading

• “norm”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “norm”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• morn

Danish

Etymology

From Latin norma.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɒˀm/

Noun

norm c (singular definite normen, plural indefinite normer)

1. norm; standard

Declension

Declension of norm

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	norm	normen	normer	normerne
genitive	norms	normens	normers	normernes

References

• “norm” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French norme, ultimately from Latin nōrma. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nɔrm/
• Hyphenation: norm
• Rhymes: -ɔrm

Noun

norm f (plural normen, diminutive normpje n)

1. A norm, standard.

Derived terms

• bedrijfsnorm
• begrotingsnorm
• Maastrichtnorm
• normbesef
• normloos
• normtaal
• schrijfnorm
• taalnorm

Related terms

• normaal
• normatief
• normeren

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin norma.

Noun

norm m (definite singular normen, indefinite plural normer, definite plural normene)

1. norm (that which is normal)

Derived terms

• normere

References

• “norm” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin norma.

Noun

norm f (definite singular norma, indefinite plural normer, definite plural normene)

1. A norm (that which is normal).

Derived terms

• normera/normere
• normering

References

• “norm” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Pronunciation

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Noun

norm c

1. norm (that which is normal)
2. norm (in analysis)

Declension

Declension of norm
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	norm	normen	normer	normerna
Genitive	norms	normens	normers	normernas

Related terms

• normal
• normativ
• normera
• normalisera

Anagrams

• morn

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *nurmi, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *ńurme. Cognates include Finnish nurmi.

Noun

norm

1. A clearing (among trees).