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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A standard, model, or pattern regarded as typical: the current middle-class norm of two children per family.
  2. n. Mathematics A mode.
  3. n. Mathematics An average.
  4. n. Mathematics The length of a vector.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A rule; a pattern; a model; an authoritative standard.
  2. n. In biology, a typical structural unit; a type.
  3. n. In petrography, in the quantitative classification (see rock), the standard mineral composition of an igneous rock, that is, the chemical composition expressed in terms of standard minerals.
  4. n. An abbreviation of Norman.

Wiktionary

  1. v. analysis To endow (a vector space, etc) with a norm.
  2. n. That which is regarded as normal or typical.
  3. n. A rule that is enforced by members of a community.
  4. n. philosophy, computer science A sentence with non-descriptive meaning, such as a command, permission, or prohibition.
  5. n. mathematics A function, generally denoted or , that maps vectors to non-negative scalars and has the following properties:

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A rule or authoritative standard; a model; a type.
  2. n. (Biol.) A typical, structural unit; a type.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a statistic describing the location of a distribution
  2. n. a standard or model or pattern regarded as typical

Etymologies

  1. From Latin norma ("a carpenter's square, a rule, a pattern, a precept"). (Wiktionary)
  2. French norme, from Old French, from Latin norma, carpenter's square, norm; see gnō- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (4)

Words with the same meaning

  1. model
  1. type
  1. standard
  1. pattern

hypernyms (4)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. criterion
  1. measure
  1. standard
  1. touchstone

same context (23)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. conventions
  2. guideline
  3. taboo
  4. ethic
  1. standpoint
  2. criterion
  3. mores
  4. precept
  1. sanction
  2. concept
  3. ideology
  4. assumption
  1. precedent
  2. consensus
  3. hierarchy
  4. usage
  1. perspective
  2. viewpoint
  3. maxim
  4. standard
  1. agenda
  2. methodology
  3. judgments

rhymes (14)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. conform
  2. deform
  1. disinform
  2. dorm
  1. form
  2. inform
  1. lukewarm
  2. misinform
  1. perform
  2. reform
  1. storm
  2. swarm
  1. transform
  2. warm

reverse dictionary (70)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. mean
  2. mode
  3. normative
  4. normal
  5. theromorphia
  6. unexceptional
  7. exceptionalism
  8. enormal
  9. etypic
  10. deviant
  11. deviate
  12. extremist
  13. exceptional
  14. monstrous
  1. unnatural
  2. stereotyped
  3. enormous
  4. ultra
  5. unconformist
  6. norm
  7. normalize
  8. egocentric
  9. radical
  10. renormalise
  11. renormalize
  12. standardise
  13. standardize
  14. substandard
  1. variation
  2. aberration
  3. bane
  4. diverge
  5. divergence
  6. eccentric
  7. extreme
  8. General American
  9. super-
  10. deficient
  11. deviance
  12. ibn al-haytham
  13. inferior
  14. nonconformist
  1. nonnormative
  2. normalise
  3. normality
  4. variance
  5. variant
  6. aberrance
  7. aberrancy
  8. aberrant
  9. abnormal
  10. al-hasan ibn al-haytham
  11. al-haytham
  12. alhacen
  13. alhazen
  14. anticipation
  1. average
  2. departure
  3. deviation
  4. difference
  5. expectancy
  6. far
  7. Norma
  8. brevier
  9. canonic
  10. canonical
  11. heteromorphism
  12. par
  13. polysynthetic
  14. true

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