norm en · NOUN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
- nôrm (Canada, General-American)
- (Texas) audio
- /noɹm/ (Canada, General-American)
- /nɔːm/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /noːm/ (Australia, New-Zealand)
- audio Midland US
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- Proto-Indo-European *-sḱéti Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₃sḱétider. Proto-Hellenic *gignṓskō Ancient Greek γιγνώσκω (gignṓskō) Proto-Indo-European *-mṓ Ancient Greek -μων (-mōn) Ancient Greek γνώμων (gnṓmōn)bor. Etruscanbor.? Latin normabor. English norm From Latin norma (“a carpenter's square, a rule, a pattern, a precept”). Doublet of norma.
Meanings
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That which is normal or typical.
"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."
2011 December 16, Denis Campbell, “Hospital staff 'lack skills to cope with dementia patients'”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 31 May 2022: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.
2019 December 18, Richard Clinnick, “Railway's 2020 vision”, in Rail, page 3:For most people, this sacrifice is made easily and instinctively. Not so for otroverts, who are neither willing nor able to passively adopt the social scripts that others do. To the otrovert, who is constantly engaged with the choices and consequences of their individual life, social norms follow a circular logic: […]
2025 June 19, Rami Kaminski, ““Otroverts” and why nonconformists often see what others can’t”, in Big Think, archived from the original on 15 Jul 2025:[…] the world needs a constitutional moment that will generate new institutions and actuate a new norm.
2008, Dennis Patterson, Ari Afilalo, The New Global Trading Order: The Evolving State and the Future of Trade:Unemployment is the norm in this part of the country.
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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.
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.
2011, Roy F. Baumeister, John Tierney, Willpower, →ISBN, page 230:
- A required level of achievement.
- A sentence with non-descriptive meaning, such as a command, permission, or prohibition.
- 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 v↦|v| or v↦‖v‖, that satisfies the following properties: ▸ if v ne 0 then ‖v‖ ne 0;
- 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 v↦|v| or v↦‖v‖, that satisfies the following properties: ▸ given a scalar k, ‖kv‖=|k|·‖v‖, where |k| is the absolute value of k;
- 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 v↦|v| or v↦‖v‖, that satisfies the following properties: ▸ given two vectors v,w, ‖v+w‖<‖v‖+‖w‖ (the triangle inequality).
- Any of several generalizations of the above: a field norm, ideal norm, etc.
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Any of several generalizations of the above: a field norm, ideal norm, etc. ▸ An element of the image of some (generalized) norm, the element then said to be from the norm in question, or from the structure which gave rise to the norm.
A quaternion algebra (a,b) over ksplits if and only if b is a norm from the field extension k(#92;sqrt#123;a#125;)#47;k, i.e. if and only if there is some x in k(#92;sqrt#123;a#125;) which has field norm exactly equal to b.
- A high level of performance in a chess tournament, several of which are required for a player to receive a title.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| norms | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Hardy norm · adnorm · cross norm · C*-cross norm · integral flat norm · T-norm · Frobenius matrix norm · matrix F-norm · male as norm · Mistralian norm · four-vector norm · mass norm · norm of reciprocity · Cr-norm · subordinate norm · norm of disinterestedness · copynorm · ethical norm · normed · uniform norm · norm resolvent convergence · regular norm · sup norm · polynomial norm · maximum absolute row sum norm · normwise · Gowers norm · Euclidean matrix norm · t-norm · normlessness · metanorm · spinor norm · normable · exonorm · maximum norm · graph norm · nuclear norm · norm-residue · Hilbert-Schmidt norm · minimum norm property · vector norm · age norm · metric induced by a norm · l1 norm · Chebyshev norm · supremum norm · infinity-norm · Dedekind-Hasse norm · reduced norm · two-norm · norm theorem · social norm · normcore · 1-norm · trace norm · 2-norm · t-norm fuzzy logic · p-norm · complex norm · seminorm · norm of universalism · spinorial norm · field norm · basic norm · norm function · pseudonorm · Euclidean vector norm · norm of organized skepticism · L-infinity norm · conorm · grandmaster norm · matrix norm · multinorm · extended norm · norm form · norm of communism · Frobenius norm · Euclidean norm · sup-norm · relative norm · norm-referencing · vector p-norm · norm of an ideal · normie · quaternion norm · matrix p-norm · natural norm · Bombieri norm · normless · renorm · normation · normic form · absolute norm · semi-norm · induced norm · norm-referenced · flat norm · statistical norm · sexual norm · Minkowski norm · p-adic norm · polynomial bracket norm · maximum absolute row column norm · ideological norm · quasinorm · l2 norm · peremptory norm · polynomial bar norm · tobacco-free social norm · Frobenius norm function · dual norm · Banach norm · operator norm · norm of reaction · spectral norm · moral norm
Hyponyms
absolute value · p-adic absolute value · trivial absolute value
Relateds
normo- · normative · normatic · normal · abnormity · normated · abnormous
Translations (82)
ota قاعده (rule that is enforced by members of a community) · ro normă (rule that is enforced by members of a community) · la norma (that which is normal) · de Norm (math: function that maps vectors to non-negative reals) · fa-ira هَنْجار (that which is normal) · cmn 規範 /规范 (that which is normal) · pl norma (that which is normal) · fi normi (math: function that maps vectors to non-negative reals) · ru но́рма (math: function that maps vectors to non-negative reals) · fr norme (rule that is enforced by members of a community) · mnb fefuna (rule that is enforced by members of a community) · ko 규범 (rule that is enforced by members of a community) · fa-ira نُرْم (math: function that maps vectors to non-negative reals) · is norm (that which is normal) · de Regel (that which is normal) · sv norm (that which is normal) · pt norma (rule that is enforced by members of a community) · bg пра́вило (rule that is enforced by members of a community) · fr norme (math: function that maps vectors to non-negative reals) · ko 규범 (that which is normal) · be но́рма (that which is normal) · th บรรทัดฐาน (rule that is enforced by members of a community) · ro normă (that which is normal) · bg но́рма (rule that is enforced by members of a community) · ru но́рма (rule that is enforced by members of a community) · uk но́рма (that which is normal) · fr norme (that which is normal) · ru но́рма (that which is normal) · he נוֹרְמָה (that which is normal) · sv norm (math: function that maps vectors to non-negative reals) · nl norm (that which is normal) · pl norma (rule that is enforced by members of a community) · ba норма (rule that is enforced by members of a community) · cs norma (rule that is enforced by members of a community) · de Norm (rule that is enforced by members of a community) · da norm (that which is normal) · pl norma (chess: high level of performance) · ja 規範 (that which is normal) · it norma (rule that is enforced by members of a community) · it norma (math: function that maps vectors to non-negative reals) · de Norm (that which is normal) · da norm (math: function that maps vectors to non-negative reals) · pl norma (math: function that maps vectors to non-negative reals) · uk но́рма (rule that is enforced by members of a community) · oc normo (rule that is enforced by members of a community) · he נוֹרְמָה (math: function that maps vectors to non-negative reals) · he נוֹרְמָה (rule that is enforced by members of a community) · hu norma (that which is normal) · ka ნორმა (that which is normal) · pl norma (philosophy, computer science: sentence with non-descriptive meaning) · ro regulă (rule that is enforced by members of a community) · ba норма (that which is normal) · grc κριτήριον (that which is normal) · fa-ira نُرْم (rule that is enforced by members of a community) · bg но́рма (that which is normal) · el κριτήριο (that which is normal) · ru пра́вило (rule that is enforced by members of a community) · izh norma (that which is normal) · fa-ira مِعْیار (that which is normal) · id norma (rule that is enforced by members of a community) · hu norma (math: function that maps vectors to non-negative reals) · pt norma (that which is normal) · fi normi (that which is normal) · bg но́рма (math: function that maps vectors to non-negative reals) · eo normo (that which is normal) · cmn 常態 /常态 (that which is normal) · ca norma (rule that is enforced by members of a community) · ca norma (that which is normal) · es norma (rule that is enforced by members of a community) · es norma (that which is normal) · it norma (that which is normal) · oc nòrma (rule that is enforced by members of a community) · ja 規範 (rule that is enforced by members of a community) · fa-ira هَنْجار (rule that is enforced by members of a community) · es norma (math: function that maps vectors to non-negative reals) · fa-ira نُرْم (that which is normal) · ja ノルマ (that which is normal) · ja 規 (that which is normal) · fi normi (rule that is enforced by members of a community) · nb norm (that which is normal) · cs norma (that which is normal) · sk norma (that which is normal)