norm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɔːm/
enpr: nôrm
ipa: /nɔɹm/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)m
Forms: form: norms
Etymology: From Latin norma (“a carpenter's square, a rule, a pattern, a precept”). Doublet of norma.
Senses: examples: text: Unemployment is the norm in this part of the country.
text: […] the world needs a constitutional moment that will generate new institutions and actuate a new norm.
ref: 2008, Dennis Patterson, Ari Afilalo, The New Global Trading Order: The Evolving State and the Future of Trade:
text: "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."
ref: 2011 December 16, Denis Campbell, “Hospital staff 'lack skills to cope with dementia patients'”, in The Guardian:
text: 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.
ref: 2019 December 18, Richard Clinnick, “Railway's 2020 vision”, in Rail, page 3:
text: 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: […]
ref: 2025 June 19, Rami Kaminski, ““Otroverts” and why nonconformists often see what others can’t”, in Big Think:
glosses: That which is normal or typical.
examples: text: Not eating your children is just one of those societal norms.
text: 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.
ref: 2011, Roy F. Baumeister, John Tierney, Willpower, →ISBN, page 230:
glosses: A rule that is imposed by regulations and/or socially enforced by members of a community.
topics: computer
computing
engineering
human-sciences
mathematics
natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: A sentence with non-descriptive meaning, such as a command, permission, or prohibition.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: 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;
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: 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;
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: 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).
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any of several generalizations of the above: a field norm, ideal norm, etc.
examples: text: 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.
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: 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.
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: A high level of performance in a chess tournament, several of which are required for a player to receive a title.
Hyponyms: topics: mathematics
sciences
word: absolute value
topics: mathematics
sciences
word: p-adic absolute value
topics: mathematics
sciences
word: trivial absolute value
Derived terms: 1-norm
2-norm
absolute norm
adnorm
age norm
Banach norm
basic norm
Bombieri norm
C*-cross norm
Chebyshev norm
complex norm
conorm
copynorm
Cr-norm
cross norm
Dedekind-Hasse norm
dual norm
ethical norm
Euclidean matrix norm
Euclidean norm
Euclidean vector norm
exonorm
extended norm
field norm
flat norm
four-vector norm
Frobenius matrix norm
Frobenius norm
Frobenius norm function
Gowers norm
grandmaster norm
graph norm
Hardy norm
Hilbert-Schmidt norm
ideological norm
induced norm
infinity-norm
integral flat norm
l1 norm
l2 norm
L-infinity norm
male as norm
mass norm
matrix F-norm
matrix norm
matrix p-norm
maximum absolute row column norm
maximum absolute row sum norm
maximum norm
metanorm
metric induced by a norm
minimum norm property
Minkowski norm
Mistralian norm
moral norm
multinorm
natural norm
normable
normation
normcore
normed
norm form
norm function
normic form
normie
normless
normlessness
norm of an ideal
norm of communism
norm of disinterestedness
norm of organized skepticism
norm of reaction
norm of reciprocity
norm of universalism
norm-referenced
norm-referencing
norm-residue
norm resolvent convergence
norm theorem
normwise
nuclear norm
operator norm
p-adic norm
peremptory norm
p-norm
polynomial bar norm
polynomial bracket norm
polynomial norm
pseudonorm
quasinorm
quaternion norm
reduced norm
regular norm
relative norm
renorm
seminorm
semi-norm
sexual norm
social norm
spectral norm
spinorial norm
spinor norm
statistical norm
subordinate norm
sup-norm
sup norm
supremum norm
t-norm
T-norm
t-norm fuzzy logic
tobacco-free social norm
trace norm
two-norm
uniform norm
vector norm
vector p-norm
Related terms: abnormity
abnormous
normal
normated
normatic
normative
normo-