Meaning

10 senses
  1. That which is normal or typical.

    Unemployment is the norm in this part of the country.

    Regel, Norm

    но́рмаnórma

    но́рмаnórma

  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.

    Norm

    но́рмаnórma, пра́вилоprávilo

    но́рмаnórma

  3. A required level of achievement.

  4. A sentence with non-descriptive meaning, such as a command, permission, or prohibition.

  5. 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;

  6. Given a scalar k, ‖kv‖=|k|·‖v‖, where |k| is the absolute value of k;

  7. Given two vectors v,w, ‖v+w‖<‖v‖+‖w‖ (the triangle inequality).

  8. Any of several generalizations of the above: a field norm, ideal norm, etc.

  9. 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.

  10. A high level of performance in a chess tournament, several of which are required for a player to receive a title.

More definitions
  • a standard or model or pattern regarded as typical
  • a statistic describing the location of a distribution

Examples

66 sentences
  1. This is the norm.

    Це норма.

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  2. This contradicts all norms and rules.

    deDas widerspricht allen Normen und Regeln.

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  3. This has become the new norm.

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  4. The norm of pronunciation is “continental.”

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  5. She questions the norm with courage.

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
that which is normal:
Русский
By meaning 2
math: function that maps vectors to non-negative reals:
rule that is enforced by members of a community:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
math: function that maps vectors to non-negative reals:
that which is normal:

Origin

From Latin norma (“a carpenter's square, a rule, a pattern, a precept”). Doublet of norma.

From Latin norma (“a carpenter's square, a rule, a pattern, a precept”). Doublet of norma.

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