norm
UK/nɔːm//noɹm/
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norm noun: that which is normal or typical.
Noun (1)
norm (plural norms)
- That which is normal or typical.
- Unemployment is the norm in this part of the country.
- […] 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
- 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.
- if v ne 0 then ‖v‖ ne 0;
- given a scalar k, ‖kv‖=|k|·‖v‖, where |k| is the absolute value of k;
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 high level of performance in a chess tournament, several of which are required for a player to receive a title.
Verb
norm (third-person singular simple present norms, present participle norming, simple past and past participle normed)
- To endow (a vector space, etc.) with a norm.
Noun (2) capitalized: NORM
NORM (plural NORMs)
- Initialism of naturally occurring radioactive materials.
- Radon in homes is one occurrence of NORM which may give rise to concern and action to control it, by ventilation.2016, World Nuclear Association, (Please provide the book title or journal name)
- Initialism of nonmobile older rural male, the target conservative informant for documenting dialects and regional accents.
Proper noun capitalized: Norm
Norm
- A diminutive of the male given name Norman.
norm meaning in Indonesian and Thai
norm in Indonesian
- rule that is enforced by members of a community
- norma
norm in Thai
- rule that is enforced by members of a community
- บรรทัดฐาน ban-tát-tǎan
Examples of norm in a sentence
- "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...
- 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...
Forms of norm
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | norms |
| plural | NORMs |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | norms |
| present participle | norming |
| past participle | normed |
| past | normed |
Origin of norm
From Latin norma (“a carpenter's square, a rule, a pattern, a precept”). Doublet of norma.
Back-formation from normed.
Words formed from norm
- norming
- Normism
- 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
Phrases with norm
Words that rhyme with norm
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Questions about norm
- What does norm mean?
- Norm means that which is normal or typical.
- What is norm in Indonesian?
- Norm in Indonesian is norma. See Norm meaning in Indonesian.
- How do you use norm in a sentence?
- "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."
- What part of speech is norm?
- Norm can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce norm?
- Norm is pronounced /nɔːm/ (UK).
- What is the plural of norm?
- The plural of norm is norms.
Words near norm in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: norm (page history and authors); NORM (page history and authors); Norm (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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