norm
English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /nɔːm/
- (General American) enPR: nôrm, IPA: /nɔɹm/
- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)m
Etymology 1[edit]
From French norme, from Old French, from Latin norma (“a carpenter's square, a rule, a pattern, a precept”).
Noun[edit]
norm (plural norms)
- 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.
- 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.
- (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 , , where is the absolute value of ;
- given two vectors , (the triangle inequality).
- (chess) A high level of performance in a chess tournament, several of which are required for a player to receive a title.
Hyponyms[edit]
- (mathematics): absolute value, p-adic absolute value, trivial absolute value
Derived terms[edit]
- 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
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Etymology 2[edit]
Back-formation from normed.
Verb[edit]
norm (third-person singular simple present norms, present participle norming, simple past and past participle normed)
- (mathematical analysis) To endow (a vector space, etc.) with a norm.
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Further reading[edit]
- “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.
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Danish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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Noun[edit]
norm c (singular definite normen, plural indefinite normer)
Declension[edit]
References[edit]
- “norm” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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[edit]
Noun[edit]
norm f (plural normen, diminutive normpje n)
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Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
norm m (definite singular normen, indefinite plural normer, definite plural normene)
- norm (that which is normal)
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- “norm” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
norm f (definite singular norma, indefinite plural normer, definite plural normene)
- A norm (that which is normal).
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- “norm” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
audio (file)
Noun[edit]
norm c
Declension[edit]
Declension of norm | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | norm | normen | normer | normerna |
Genitive | norms | normens | normers | normernas |
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Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Finnic *nurmi, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *ńurme. Cognates include Finnish nurmi.
Noun[edit]
norm
- A clearing (among trees).
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