norm

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

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

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:

     "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 ${\displaystyle v\mapsto \left|v\right|}$ or ${\displaystyle v\mapsto \left\|v\right\|}$, that maps vectors to non-negative scalars and has the following properties:
   1. if ${\displaystyle v\neq 0}$ then ${\displaystyle \left\|v\right\|\neq 0}$;
   2. given a scalar ${\displaystyle k}$, ${\displaystyle \left\|kv\right\|=\left|k\right|\cdot \left\|v\right\|}$, where ${\displaystyle \left|k\right|}$ is the absolute value of ${\displaystyle k}$;
   3. given two vectors ${\displaystyle v,w}$, ${\displaystyle \left\|v+w\right\|\leq \left\|v\right\|+\left\|w\right\|}$ (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.

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

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

Back-formation from normed.

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.

• norming

• normalize, normalise

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

• morn

From Latin norma.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɒˀm/

norm c (singular definite normen, plural indefinite normer)

1. norm; standard

• “norm” in Den Danske Ordbog

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

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

norm f (plural normen, diminutive normpje n)

1. A norm, standard.

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

• normaal
• normatief
• normeren

From Latin norma.

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

1. norm (that which is normal)

• normere

• “norm” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin norma.

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

1. A norm (that which is normal).

• normera/normere
• normering

• “norm” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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norm c

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

• normal
• normativ
• normera
• normalisera

• morn

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

norm

1. A clearing (among trees).