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N0153000 (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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(nɔːm) n1. an average level of achievement or performance, as of a group or person2. a standard of achievement or behaviour that is required, desired, or designated as normal3. (Sociology) sociol an established standard of behaviour shared by members of a social group to which each member is expected to conform4. (Mathematics) maths a. the length of a vector expressed as the square root of the sum of the square of its componentsb. another name for mode⁶5. (Geological Science) geology the theoretical standard mineral composition of an igneous rock[C19: from Latin norma carpenter's rule, square]

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(nɔːm) na stereotype of the unathletic Australian male[from a cartoon figure in the government-sponsored Life, Be In It campaign]

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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"averagestatistics - a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parametersstatistic - a datum that can be represented numericallyage norm - the average age at which particular performances are expected to appearmodal value, mode - the most frequent value of a random variablemedian, median value - the value below which 50% of the cases fallmean, 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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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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noun1. A regular or customary matter, condition, or course of events:commonplace, ordinary, rule, usual.2. Something, as a type, number, quantity, or degree, that represents a midpoint between extremes on a scale of valuation:average, mean, median, medium, par.

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authoritative rule or standard by which something is judged and on that basis approved or disapproved. Examples of norms include standards of right and wrong, beauty and ugliness, and truth and falsehood. Several fields of philosophy, especially ethicsethics,
in philosophy, the study and evaluation of human conduct in the light of moral principles. Moral principles may be viewed either as the standard of conduct that individuals have constructed for themselves or as the body of obligations and duties that a particular society
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, the branch of philosophy that is concerned with the nature of art and the criteria of artistic judgment. The classical conception of art as the imitation of nature was formulated by Plato and developed by Aristotle in his Poetics,
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the systematic study of valid inference. A distinction is drawn between logical validity and truth. Validity merely refers to formal properties of the process of inference.
..... Click the link for more information. , evaluate such rules; in sociology, social and institutional norms, more communal and less formal than laws, are studied in relation to conformity, and to anomie or normlessness. See also Émile DurkheimDurkheim, Émile
, 1858–1917, French sociologist. Along with Max Weber he is considered one of the chief founders of modern sociology. Educated in France and Germany, Durkheim taught social science at the Univ. of Bordeaux and the Sorbonne.
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a standard or rule, regulating behaviour in a social setting. The idea that social life, as an ordered and continuous process, is dependent upon shared expectations and obligations, is commonly found in sociological approaches, although some place more emphasis on it than others. For DURKHEIM, society was theorized as a moral order. This perspective was influential in the development of modern FUNCTIONALISM, particularly in the work of PARSONS, where the concept of NORMATIVE ORDER is the central element of the SOCIAL SYSTEM. Here the idea of norms is related to SOCIALIZATION and ROLES. These prescriptions operate at every level of society, from individuals actions in daily life, e.g. in table manners or classroom behaviour, to the formulation of legal systems in advanced societies. The concept of norms also implies that of SOCIAL CONTROL, i.e. positive or negative means of ensuring conformity and applying sanctions to deviant behaviour (see DEVIANCE).

Other sociological approaches deal with the issue of social order in rather different ways. In some, RULES are emphasized, rather than norms, whilst in others there is a greater emphasis on POWER and coercion.

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(1) The minimum of something, as established by a rule or plan, for example, a time norm or sowing norm.

(2) A rule or viewpoint generally accepted in a particular social milieu; a rule of social conduct expressed in a law (legal norm).

(3) A rule or law in some branch of learning, for example, a linguistic norm.

(4) The average of something, such as a flow norm.

(5) Norm of representation, the number of deputies or delegates representing a preestablished number of voters in elective bodies or at congresses and conferences.

(6) Typographic norm, the title of a book or the name of its author, printed in small type on the first page of every printed sheet.

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a mathematical concept that generalizes the concept of the absolute value of a number. For example, the norm of a vector x is the length of the vector and is denoted by ǀǀxǀǀ. The norm of a quaternion a + bi + cj + dk is the number a² + b² + c² + d²; the norm of a matrix A is the number

and the norm of an algebraic number is the product of all the numbers conjugated with it, including the number itself. The norm is used extensively in the theory of linear spaces. We can find the norm for linear functionals in a given linear space according to the formula

and for linear operators according to the formula

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[nȯrm] (mathematics) A scalar valued function on a vector space with properties analogous to those of the modulus of a complex number; namely: the norm of the zero vector is zero, all other vectors have positive norm, the norm of a scalar times a vector equals the absolute value of the scalar times the norm of the vector, and the norm of a sum is less than or equal to the sum of the norms. For a matrix, the square root of the sum of the squares of the moduli of the matrix entries. For a quaternion, the product of the quaternion and its conjugate. absolute value (metallurgy) fineness (petrology) The theoretical mineral composition of a rock expressed in terms of standard mineral molecules as determined by means of chemical analyses. (quantum mechanics) The square of the modulus of a Schrödinger-Pauli wave function, integrated over the space coordinates and summed over the spin coordinates of the particles it describes. The square root of this quantity.

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1. Mathsa. the length of a vector expressed as the square root of the sum of the square of its components b. another name for mode2. Geology the theoretical standard mineral composition of an igneous rock

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(mathematics)A real-valued function modelling the length ofa vector. The norm must be homogeneous and symmetricand fulfil the following condition: the shortest way to reacha point is to go straight toward it. Every convex symmetricclosed surface surrounding point 0 introduces a norm bymeans of Minkowski functional; all vectors that end on thesurface have the same norm then.

The most popular norm is the Euclidean norm.

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noun a regular or customary matter, condition, or course of events

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noun something, as a type, number, quantity, or degree, that represents a midpoint between extremes on a scale of valuation

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noun a standard or model or pattern regarded as typical

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