norm

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/nɔːm/

noun 7verb 1name 1

Collocations

(noun.)

ADJ

accepted, established | ethical, moral | cultural, social | statistical | community, family, group

VERB + NORM

conform to

Students who conform to classroom norms find it easier to focus on their studies.

break, challenge | deviate from, differ from

PREP

above the ~, below the ~, over the ~

Her test score was well above the norm for students in her age group.

~ for

Working from home is now the norm for many people in our company.

~ of

In many cultures, it is considered a norm of politeness to remove your shoes indoors.

PHRASES

a deviation/departure from the norm, an exception to the norm, the norm rather than the exception

Working from home has become the norm rather than the exception in many companies.

Definitions

noun

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.

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.

A sentence with non-descriptive meaning, such as a command, permission, or prohibition.

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

verb

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

name

A diminutive of the male given name Norman.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — a statistic describing the location of a distribution

average

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

Unemployment is the norm in this part of the country.

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[…] the world needs a constitutional moment that will generate new institutions and actuate a new norm.

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"This shocking report proves once again that we urgently need a radical shake-up of hospital care," said Jeremy Hughes, chief executive of the Alzheimer's Society. "Given that people with dementia occ

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Radon in homes is one occurrence of NORM which may give rise to concern and action to control it, by ventilation.

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Her behaviour towards me was a departure from the norm.

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A vector is a unit vector if its norm is 1.

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