Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A pattern that is regarded as typical of something.
- noun A standard or expectation that is established for a given enterprise or effort.
- noun A pattern of behavior considered acceptable or proper by a social group.
- noun An average.
- noun The magnitude of a vector.
- noun The modulus of a complex number.
- transitive verb To establish or judge in reference to a norm.
- transitive verb Mathematics To define a norm on (a space).
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In petrography, in the quantitative classification (see
rock ), the standard mineral composition of an igneous rock, that is, the chemical composition expressed in terms of standard minerals. - noun A rule; a pattern; a model; an authoritative standard.
- noun In biology, a typical structural unit; a type.
- noun An abbreviation of
Norman .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A rule or authoritative standard; a model; a type.
- noun (Biol.) A typical, structural unit; a type.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun That which is regarded as
normal ortypical . - noun A
rule that is enforced by members of a community. - noun philosophy, computer science A sentence with non-descriptive meaning, such as a
command ,permission , orprohibition . - noun mathematics A function, generally denoted or , that
maps vectors to non-negativescalars and has the following properties: - verb analysis To
endow (avector space , etc) with a norm.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a statistic describing the location of a distribution
- noun a standard or model or pattern regarded as typical
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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While the norm is the pillar, and without the norm you can forget about the policy, but in the middle, between the norm and policy, there is evidence.
Rahim Kanani: Measuring Human Rights: An In-depth Discussion with Andrea Rossi of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy Rahim Kanani 2010
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While the norm is the pillar, and without the norm you can forget about the policy, but in the middle, between the norm and policy, there is evidence.
Rahim Kanani: Measuring Human Rights: An In-depth Discussion with Andrea Rossi of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy Rahim Kanani 2010
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While the norm is the pillar, and without the norm you can forget about the policy, but in the middle, between the norm and policy, there is evidence.
Rahim Kanani: Measuring Human Rights: An In-depth Discussion with Andrea Rossi of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy Rahim Kanani 2010
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While the norm is the pillar, and without the norm you can forget about the policy, but in the middle, between the norm and policy, there is evidence.
Rahim Kanani: Measuring Human Rights: An In-depth Discussion with Andrea Rossi of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy Rahim Kanani 2010
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They seem to think that breaking from the norm is a bad thing.
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They seem to think that breaking from the norm is a bad thing.
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This week the city's chief health official announced that the daily death toll in Moscow in recent days had reached 700, nearly double what he called the norm, and attributed the increase to the extreme conditions, particularly the heat.
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They seem to think that breaking from the norm is a bad thing.
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They seem to think that breaking from the norm is a bad thing.
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Now, the norm is a one-room house with wall of adobe.
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