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norm

noun
/nɔːm/UK/nɔɹm/US

Etymology

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

  1. borrowed from norma

Definitions

  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. ›+ 7 more definitions

    1. A function which satisfies a particular set of formal conditions, created to generalize…

      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:

    2. Any of several generalizations of the above

      Any of several generalizations of the above: a field norm, ideal norm, etc.

    3. A high level of performance in a chess tournament, several of which are required for a…

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

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

    5. A diminutive of the male given name Norman.

    6. 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.

    7. Initialism of nonmobile older rural male.

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Derived

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 · +75 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at norm. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at norm. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at norm

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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