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norm
(nôrm)n.
1.
a. A pattern that is regarded as typical of something: a neighborhood where families with two wage-earners are the norm.
b. A standard or expectation that is established for a given enterprise or effort: journalistic norms.
c. A pattern of behavior considered acceptable or proper by a social group: violated the norms of his community.
2. Mathematics
a. An average.
b. The magnitude of a vector.
c. The modulus of a complex number.
tr.v. normed, norm·ing, norms
1. To establish or judge in reference to a norm: normed the test on the basis of last year's results.
2. Mathematics To define a norm on (a space).
[French norme, from Old French, from Latin norma, carpenter's square, norm; see gnō- in Indo-European roots.]
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norm
(nɔːm)n
1. an average level of achievement or performance, as of a group or person
2. a standard of achievement or behaviour that is required, desired, or designated as normal
3. (Sociology) sociol an established standard of behaviour shared by members of a social group to which each member is expected to conform
4. (Mathematics) maths
a. the length of a vector expressed as the square root of the sum of the square of its components
b. another name for mode6
5. (Geological Science) geology the theoretical standard mineral composition of an igneous rock
[C19: from Latin norma carpenter's rule, square]
Norm
(nɔːm)n
a stereotype of the unathletic Australian male
[from a cartoon figure in the government-sponsored Life, Be In It campaign]
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norm
(nɔrm)n.
1. a standard, model, or pattern.
2. a rule or standard of behavior expected of each member of a social group.
3. a behavior pattern or trait considered typical of a particular social group.
4. the general level or average.
5. Educ.
a. a designated standard of average performance of people of a given age, background, etc.
b. a standard based on the past average performance of a given individual.
6. Math.
a. a real-valued, nonnegative function whose domain is a vector space.
b. the greatest difference between two successive points of a given partition.
[1815–25; < Latin normarule, pattern]
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| Noun | 1. | norm - a standard or model or pattern regarded as typical; "the current middle-class norm of two children per family" criterion, standard, touchstone, measure - a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated; "the schools comply with federal standards"; "they set the measure for all subsequent work" |
| 2. | norm - a statistic describing the location of a distribution; "it set the norm for American homes" statistics - a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters statistic - a datum that can be represented numerically age norm - the average age at which particular performances are expected to appear modal value, mode - the most frequent value of a random variable median, median value - the value below which 50% of the cases fall mean, mean value - an average of n numbers computed by adding some function of the numbers and dividing by some function of n |
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norm
noun standard, rule, model, pattern, mean, type, measure, average, par, criterion, benchmark, yardstick Their actions departed from what she called the commonly accepted norms of behaviour.
the norm the rule, the average, par for the course, the usual thing Families of six or seven were the norm in those days.
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norm
noun1. A regular or customary matter, condition, or course of events:
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[nɔːm] NCollins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
norm
[ˈnɔːrm] n (= standard) → norme f
(= usual) to be the norm → être la règle
Working wives were the norm throughout the Soviet era → En URSS, il était de règle que les femmes travaillent.
Working wives were the norm throughout the Soviet era → En URSS, il était de règle que les femmes travaillent.
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Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
norm
n. norma, regla.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
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n normaEnglish-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.