norm

EnglishEdit

PronunciationEdit

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /nɔːm/
(General American) enPR: nôrm, IPA: /nɔɹm/
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Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)m

Etymology 1Edit

From French norme, from Old French, from Latin norma (“a carpenter's square, a rule, a pattern, a precept”).

NounEdit

norm (plural norms)

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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.
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.
(philosophy, computer science) A sentence with non-descriptive meaning, such as a command, permission, or prohibition.
(mathematics) A function, generally denoted $v\mapsto \left|v\right|$ or $v\mapsto \left\|v\right\|$ , that maps vectors to non-negative scalars and has the following properties:
1. if $v\neq 0$ then $\left\|v\right\|\neq 0$ ;
2. given a scalar $k$ , $\left\|kv\right\|=\left|k\right|\cdot \left\|v\right\|$ , where $\left|k\right|$ is the absolute value of $k$ ;
3. given two vectors $v,w$ , $\left\|v+w\right\|\leq \left\|v\right\|+\left\|w\right\|$ (the triangle inequality).
(chess) A high level of performance in a chess tournament, several of which are required for a player to receive a title.

HyponymsEdit

(mathematics): absolute value, p-adic absolute value, trivial absolute value

Derived termsEdit

Related termsEdit

TranslationsEdit

that which is normal

Bashkir: норма (norma)
Belarusian: но́рма f (nórma)
Bulgarian: но́рма f (nórma)
Catalan: norma f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 規範／规范 (zh) (guīfàn)
Czech: norma f
Danish: norm c
Dutch: norm f
Esperanto: normo
Finnish: normi
French: norme f
Georgian: ნორმა (norma)
German: Regel f, Norm f
Greek: κριτήριο n (kritírio)
Ancient: κριτήριον n (kritḗrion)
Hungarian: norma
Icelandic: norm n
Ingrian: norma
Italian: norma f
Japanese: 規 (のり, nori), 規範 (きはん, kihan), ノルマ (noruma)
Korean: 규범(規範) (gyubeom)
Latin: norma f
Norwegian: norm
Persian: هنجار‎ (hanjâr), نُرم‎ (norm), معیار‎ (me'yâr)
Polish: norma f
Portuguese: norma f
Romanian: normă f
Russian: но́рма f (nórma)
Slovak: norma f
Spanish: norma f
Swedish: norm
Ukrainian: но́рма f (nórma)

rule that is enforced by members of a community

Bashkir: норма (norma)
Bulgarian: правило n (pravilo)
Catalan: norma f
Czech: norma f
Finnish: normi
German: Norm f
Indonesian: norma
Italian: norma f
Japanese: 規範
Korean: 규범(規範) (gyubeom)
Occitan: nòrma f, (Mistralian) normo f
Persian: هنجار‎ (hanjâr), نرم‎ (norm)
Portuguese: norma f
Romanian: regulă f, normă f
Russian: но́рма f (nórma)
Spanish: norma f
Ukrainian: но́рма f (nórma)

philosophy, computer science: sentence with non-descriptive meaning

math: function that maps vectors to non-negative scalars

Danish: norm c
Finnish: normi
French: norme f
German: Norm f
Hungarian: norma
Italian: norma f
Persian: نرم‎ (norm)
Polish: norma f
Russian: норма f (norma)
Swedish: norm

chess: high level of performance

Etymology 2Edit

Back-formation from normed.

VerbEdit

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 termsEdit

norming

TranslationsEdit

To endow with a norm

Bulgarian: нормирам (normiram)
Dutch: normeren
French: normer
German: normieren

AnagramsEdit

morn

DanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin norma.

PronunciationEdit

IPA^(key): /ˈnɒˀm/

NounEdit

norm c (singular definite normen, plural indefinite normer)

norm; standard

DeclensionEdit

Declension of norm

common gender	Singular		Plural
common gender	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	norm	normen	normer	normerne
genitive	norms	normens	normers	normernes

ReferencesEdit

“norm” in Den Danske Ordbog

DutchEdit

EtymologyEdit

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