norm

name

1. A diminutive of the male given name Norman.

noun

Etymology: From Latin norma (“a carpenter's square, a rule, a pattern, a precept”). Doublet of norma.

1. 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.”

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.”

   “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. A sentence with non-descriptive meaning, such as a command, permission, or prohibition.
4. 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 v↦|v| or v↦‖v‖, that satisfies the following properties:
5. 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 v↦|v| or v↦‖v‖, that satisfies the following properties:
6. 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 v↦|v| or v↦‖v‖, that satisfies the following properties:
7. Any of several generalizations of the above: a field norm, ideal norm, etc.
8. Any of several generalizations of the above: a field norm, ideal norm, etc.

   “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.”

9. A high level of performance in a chess tournament, several of which are required for a player to receive a title.

verb

Etymology: Back-formation from normed.

1. To endow (a vector space, etc.) with a norm.