norm

See also: Norm and NORM

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /nɔːm/
  • (US) enPR: nôrm, IPA: /nɔɹm/, X-SAMPA: /nOrm/
  • Rhymes: -ɔː(r)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. (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'”, 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."
  2. A rule that is enforced by members of a community.
    Not eating your children is just one of those societal norms.
  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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Etymology 2

Back-formation from normed.

Verb

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

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

Further reading

  • norm in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • norm in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Anagrams

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. norm, standard

Derived terms

  • bedrijfsnorm
  • normbesef
  • normloos
  • normtaal
  • schrijfnorm
  • taalnorm

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin norma

Noun

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

  1. norm (that which is normal)

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin norma

Noun

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

  1. norm (that which is normal)

Derived terms

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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

See also

Veps

Etymology

Related to Finnish nurmi.

Noun

norm

  1. clearing (among trees)
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