norm

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

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

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

A diminutive of the male given name Norman.