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English
Pronunciation
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)
- 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:"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 which satisfies a particular set of formal conditions, created to generalize the notion of the length of a vector. Formally, a real-valued function on a vector space, generally denoted or , that satisfies the following properties:
- if then ;
- given a scalar , , where is the absolute value of ;
- given two vectors , (the triangle inequality).
- (mathematics) Any of several generalizations of the above: a matrix norm, operator norm, etc.
- (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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philosophy, computer science: sentence with non-descriptive meaning
math: function that maps vectors to non-negative reals
Etymology 2
Back-formation from normed.
Verb
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
- “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
Etymology
From Latin norma.
Pronunciation
Noun
norm c (singular definite normen, plural indefinite normer)
- norm; standard
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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.
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Noun
norm f (plural normen, diminutive normpje n)
- A norm, standard.
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Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Latin norma.
Noun
norm m (definite singular normen, indefinite plural normer, definite plural normene)
- norm (that which is normal)
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References
- “norm” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Latin norma.
Noun
norm f (definite singular norma, indefinite plural normer, definite plural normene)
- A norm (that which is normal).
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- “norm” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
Pronunciation
Noun
norm c
- norm (that which is normal)
- norm (in analysis)
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Veps
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *nurmi, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *ńurme. Cognates include Finnish nurmi.
Noun
norm
- lawn
- meadow
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