norm

noun

That which is normal or typical.

A rule that is imposed by regulations and/or socially enforced by members of a community.

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

(philosophy, computer science) A sentence with non-descriptive meaning, such as a command, permission, or prohibition.

(mathematics) 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:

if v ne 0 then ‖v‖ ne 0;

given a scalar k, ‖kv‖=|k|·‖v‖, where |k| is the absolute value of k;

given two vectors v,w, ‖v+w‖<‖v‖+‖w‖ (the triangle inequality).

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

(algebra) An element of the image of some (generalized) norm, the element then said to be from the norm in question, or from the structure which gave rise to the norm.

A diminutive of the male given name Norman.

(linguistics, countable) Initialism of nonmobile older rural male.

Initialism of naturally occurring radioactive materials.

verb

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

Roots

normanorm- · Latin · rule, standard

Synonyms for norm

standardadj averageadj normaladj usualadj criterionn moresn guidelinen yardstickn benchmarkn

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