Definition: Norm
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.
- A rule that is imposed by regulations and/or socially enforced by members of a community.
- Not dressing like a supervillain at a corporate meeting is just one of those societal norms.
- (philosophy, computer science) A sentence with non-descriptive meaning, such as a command, permission or prohibition.
- (mathematics) A function that maps vectors to non-negative scalars.
- (chess) A high level of performance in a chess tournament, several of which are required for a player to receive a title.
Derived terms
- 1-norm
- 2-norm
- absolute norm
- adnorm
- age norm
- basic norm
- complex norm
- cross norm
- dual norm
- ethical norm
- Euclidean norm
- exonorm
- extended norm
- field norm
- flat norm
- grandmaster norm
- graph norm
- ideological norm
- induced norm
- infinity-norm
- mass norm
- matrix norm
- maximum norm
- moral norm
- natural norm
- normed
- norm function
- normic form
- normless
- normlessness
- polynomial norm
- pseudonorm
- quaternion norm
- reduced norm
- regular norm
- relative norm
- seminorm
- sexual norm
- social norm
- spectral norm
- statistical norm
- subordinate norm
- trace norm
- uniform norm
- vector norm
Related terms
- abnormity
- normal
- normatic
- normative
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.
Derived terms
- norming
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