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noun

a standard, model, or pattern.

general level or average: Two cars per family is the norm in most suburban communities.

Education.

a designated standard of average performance of people of a given age, background, etc.

a standard based on the past average performance of a given individual.

Mathematics.

a real-valued, nonnegative function whose domain is a vector space, with properties such that the function of a vector is zero only when the vector is zero, the function of a scalar times a vector is equal to the absolute value of the scalar times the function of the vector, and the function of the sum of two vectors is less than or equal to the sum of the functional values of each vector. The norm of a real number is its absolute value.

the greatest difference between two successive points of a given partition.

Origin:
1815–25; < Latin norma carpenter's square, rule, pattern

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Norm is always a great word to know.

So is callithumpian. Does it mean:

a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.

an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.

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Instead, it may have entered a phase in which high unemployment is the norm.

The norm in other fields is that you work in teams and do a little bit of work and get co-authorship.

In some parts of the world marrying young is a social norm.

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Instead, it may have entered a phase in which high unemployment is the norm.

The norm in other fields is that you work in teams and do a little bit of work and get co-authorship.

In some parts of the world marrying young is a social norm.

People are crowded together, with open sewers the norm.

Sustainability dashboards providing real-time information will become the norm.

The high temperatures in summer and the lows in winter were not that much out of the norm.

The natural symbiosis of microbes with other creatures is the norm.

Unfortunately, they appear to be the norm in the for-profit sector.

These mechanisms are turned on their heads in neighborhoods where criminal activity is the norm.

It's great to be inspiring kids to do things outside of the norm.

But, in my experience, these comments aren't the norm.

It is a casual town: jeans, shorts and flip-flops are the norm.

Extreme heat, dramatic daily temperature swings, and violent storms are the norm in this inhospitable place.

Abel's original strategy used to be the norm for academics in the humanities.

The growing importance of regional parties has made coalition government the norm at federal level.

Canada, where cowboys and rural living are still the norm.

It tells you exactly how people around them behave and what the norm is.

Like it or not, current teenage-texting habits will soon be the general norm.

But he admits some in the field are still skeptical that sharing will become the norm.

Climate forecasters reckon that droughts may be the norm for decades to come.

The usual answer is that you shouldn't do it unless it's already the norm in a particular locale.

What defines the norm better than the statistical outliers the extremes.

Eardrum perforation is the norm in lightning-related injury, not a sign of any special effect due to an iPod.

Some scientists toil in isolation, but in my field, collaboration is the norm.

Coalitions and minorities may be the new norm in a country which now has four substantial parties.

Chronic power outages and electrical fluctuations have been the norm.

We distinguish between individuals by identifying traits that differentiate their faces from the norm we've established.

Three wheels are the norm in solar racing because they offer less rolling resistance.

Multiple authorship of scholarly papers is now the norm in all areas of science and engineering.

Its voting patterns were even-handed and close to the norm.

Five days of parties and processions ensue, and dressing in drag for mock weddings is the norm.

Under such conditions neither mothers nor fathers can maintain a single cultural norm for long.

Find the people who deviate from the norm by being more successful.

We are moving decisively toward a society in which job insecurity is the norm for everyone, including faculty.

Gang violence and the divorce rate are well above the norm.

Canadian hospitality is a polite reversal of the norm.

If anything, an increase in forested acreage serves to help return us to a historical norm.

NuvaRings and implantable contraceptives are the norm now.

Post-interview thank-you letters are the norm in many areas outside of the academy and have been for many years.

In the rich world, paid jobs for women have become the new norm.

Two such habitats are deserts and tundra, where extremes of temperature and rainfall are the norm.

However, this is and never should be consider the norm or best practise.

Searing heat, towering dunes, gargantuan rocks and weather that would frighten a crab-boat captain are the norm.

The scent of lemon and a brilliant blue sky are the norm here.

Combining the two is natural and may become the norm soon over there.

For a new generation of game player, this is the norm.

More schematic representations are the norm throughout the world.

When you believe an imaginary being has control of your life and the world, crazy is easy and ignorance the norm.

Multilingualism is the norm in many parts of the world.

The importance of the environment can be seen from the phenomenon of the norm of reaction.

Well, that used to be the style, but kelvins is now the accepted norm.

If anything departs from the norm and deserves to be called exotic, it is us.

Instead, bureaucratic impediments seem to have become the norm.

Verily, many people would want to shun crowded places, and keeping a distance from one another appears to be the norm of living.

In our heavilly polarized us versus them social environment, this sort of recation is becoming the norm.

In some places it is the norm to publish practically everything you do.

The trouble, of course, is that each of us is also vulnerable to flubbing up the occasional social norm.

Millions of years ago the earth spun faster, there was less gravity and huge plants and animals were the norm.

Norm by bopping him over the head from behind with a pan and landing him face down in a sizzling tub of grease.

Live music and a party-hearty scene are the weekend norm here.

Norm hit his ball heavy and it landed in the same greenside bunker.

It is not that dramatically different from the norm.

So complexity is the norm and the possible combinations of variables exceeds even the brightest of minds.

Which is really the norm for nice hotels these days, but still.

Still, the students have faced challenges well beyond the norm.

Instead, the new study hints suggests that female-driven technological innovation could be the norm in humanity's closest.

Consumer spending has held up surprisingly well in a country where high saving is the norm even in good times.

Pollution is the introduction of harmful contaminants that are outside the norm for a given ecosystem.

There was partly a social norm that was emerging there.

If co-authored work is the norm in your field, then definitely include the article from the highly-ranked journal.

And if all the older men in a society conclude this is a good thing, it will rapidly become a socially enforced norm.

While it can be admirable when teens buck trends, it is not the norm, and the norm is what the study is examining.

Collective leadership is the norm in much of the animal world, he says, though rare for humans.

Does anyone know if it is the norm to negotiate and is this is reasonable offer.

What a breath of fresh air compared to the boring ball games that seem to be the norm.

It has certainly become the norm to also ask about one's military service and demand dates.

Yet not that long ago the norm was closer to a year.

We're also not far from a major metro area and commuting is sort of a norm.

In practice, interim committees have become the norm.

If it works out as planned, this rapid transition from test model to combat proving may increasingly become the norm for drones.

But the intention is that more will join this vanguard, so that foundation status becomes the norm rather than the exception.

If you track the changes over the years you can see this is going to be the norm from now.

Stories open up below the stream, where in my limited experience an unusable piece of the full item seemed to be the norm.

So future returns are likely to be lower than the previous norm.

It is still the norm for gays and lesbians to lead double lives, revealing their true feelings only to their closest friends.

Before the internet and the world wide web came along, this balkanised model was also the norm online.

All he is saying is that behavior which is outside the group norm marks one as not being a member of that group.

The norm was that prices of goods on the shelves lagged commodity prices by around six months.

The airbags are now the norm on many airlines using similar premium seating arrangements.

Lackluster handset offerings, limited overseas-ready handsets and pricey calling plans are the norm.

Homemade markers that had been the norm were too messy to carry and homemade inks faded in the sun.

In a departure from the norm for such films, the male cast members wear condoms.

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World English Dictionary

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.	sociol an established standard of behaviour shared by members of a social group to which each member is expected to conform
4.	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 mode
5.	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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Word Origin & History

norm

"standard, pattern, model," 1821, from Fr. norme, from O.Fr., from L. norma "carpenter's square, rule, pattern," of unknown origin. Klein suggests a borrowing (via Etruscan) of Gk. gnomon "carpenter's square." The L. form of the word, norma, was used in Eng. in the sense of "carpenter's square" from

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norm definition

mathematics
A real-valued function modelling the length of a vector. The norm must be homogeneous and symmetric and fulfil the following condition: the shortest way to reach a point is to go straight toward it. Every convex symmetric closed surface surrounding point 0 introduces a norm by means of Minkowski functional; all vectors that end on the surface have the same norm then.
The most popular norm is the Euclidean norm.
(2004-02-15)

American Heritage

Abbreviations & Acronyms

norm

standard
model
pattern

Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia

norm

rule or standard of behaviour shared by members of a social group. Norms may be internalized-i.e., incorporated within the individual so that there is conformity without external rewards or punishments, or they may be enforced by positive or negative sanctions from without. The social unit sharing particular norms may be small (e.g., a clique of friends) or may include all adult members of a society. Norms are more specific than values or ideals: honesty is a general value, but the rules defining what is honest behaviour in a particular situation are norms

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