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See also: Norm and NORM

English

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Etymology 1

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From Latin norma (a carpenter's square, a rule, a pattern, a precept).[1] Doublet of norma.

Noun

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norm (plural norms)

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  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[1]:
      "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 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 or , that satisfies the following properties:
    1. if then ;
    2. given a scalar , , where is the absolute value of ;
    3. given two vectors , (the triangle inequality).
  5. (mathematics) Any of several generalizations of the above: a field norm, ideal norm, etc.
    1. (algebra) 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 over splits if and only if is a norm from the field extension i.e. if and only if there is some in which has field norm exactly equal to .
  6. (chess) A high level of performance in a chess tournament, several of which are required for a player to receive a title.
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Etymology 2

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Back-formation from normed.

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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.
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  1. ^ norm, n.1”, in OED Online Paid subscription required, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

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Danish

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From Latin norma.

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norm c (singular definite normen, plural indefinite normer)

  1. norm; standard

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Dutch

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

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norm f (plural normen, diminutive normpje n)

  1. a norm, standard

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
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From Latin norma.

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

  1. norm (that which is normal)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
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From Latin norma.

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

  1. A norm (that which is normal).

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norm c

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

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Etymology

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

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norm

  1. lawn
  2. meadow

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Inflection of norm (inflection type 3/kivi)
nominative sing. norm
genitive sing. normen
partitive sing. normed
partitive plur. normid
singular plural
nominative norm normed
accusative normen normed
genitive normen normiden
partitive normed normid
essive-instructive normen normin
translative normeks normikš
inessive normes normiš
elative normespäi normišpäi
illative normehe normihe
adessive normel normil
ablative normelpäi normilpäi
allative normele normile
abessive normeta normita
comitative normenke normidenke
prolative normedme normidme
approximative I normenno normidenno
approximative II normennoks normidennoks
egressive normennopäi normidennopäi
terminative I normehesai normihesai
terminative II normelesai normilesai
terminative III normessai
additive I normehepäi normihepäi
additive II normelepäi normilepäi