norm

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

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norm (plural norms)

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  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.
  4. (mathematics) A function, generally denoted or , that maps vectors to non-negative scalars and has the following properties:
    1. if then ;
    2. given a scalar , , where is the absolute value of ;
    3. given two vectors , (the triangle inequality).
  5. (chess) A high level of performance in a chess tournament, several of which are required for a player to receive a title.
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Back-formation from normed.

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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.
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From Latin norma.

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norm c (singular definite normen, plural indefinite normer)

  1. norm; standard

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

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norm f (plural normen, diminutive normpje n)

  1. A norm, standard.

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From Latin norma.

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

  1. norm (that which is normal)

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From Latin norma.

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

  1. A norm (that which is normal).

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norm c

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

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

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

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norm

  1. A clearing (among trees).