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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Norm \Norm\, n. [L. norma a rule. See Normal, a.]
[1913 Webster]
1. A rule or authoritative standard; a model; a type; as,
deviations from the norm are not tolerated.
[1913 Webster +PJC]

2. (Biol.) A typical, structural unit; a type. --Agassiz.
[1913 Webster]

WordNet norm
n 1: a standard or model or pattern regarded as typical; "the
current middle-class norm of two children per family"
2: a statistic describing the location of a distribution; "it
set the norm for American homes" [syn: average]

Moby Dictionary
Procrustean law , Ten Commandments , Weltanschauung , Zeitgeist ,
average , axiology , balance , barometer , behavioral norm , benchmark ,
business ethics , canon , center , check , climate , climate of opinion ,
code , code of ethics , code of morals , commandment , convention ,
criterion , decalogue , degree , dictum , ethic , ethical system ,
ethics , ethos , form , formality , formula , formulary , gauge ,
general principle , generality , golden mean , golden rule ,
graduated scale , guideline , guiding principle , happy medium ,
ideology , imperative , intellectual climate , juste-milieu , law ,
law of nature , legal ethics , maxim , mean , measure , median ,
medical ethics , mediocrity , medium , middle , middle course ,
middle ground , middle point , middle position , middle state ,
middle-of-the-road , midpoint , mitzvah , model , moral , moral climate ,
moral code , moral principles , morals , mores , new morality , norma ,
normal , normative system , norms , order of nature , ordinance , par ,
parameter , pattern , prescribed form , prescription , principium ,
principle , principles , professional ethics , quantity , reading ,
readout , regulation , rubric , rule , run , scale , set form ,
settled principle , social ethics , spiritual climate , standard ,
standards , standing order , tenet , test , touchstone , type ,
universal law , usual , value , value system , via media ,
working principle , working rule , world view , yardstick

FOLDOC norm

A real-valued function modelling the length of a
vector. The norm must be homogeneous and symmetric and
fulfil the following condition: the shortest way to reach a
point is to go straight toward it. Every convex symmetric
closed surface surrounding point 0 introduces a norm by
means of Minkowski functional; all vectors that end on the
surface have the same norm then.

The most popular norm is the Euclidean norm; it is
calculated by summing up squares of all coordinates and taking
the square root; this is the essence of {Pythagorus's
theorem}. In the infinite-dimensional case, the sum is
infinite or is replaced with an integral when the number of
dimensions is uncountable.

(1998-07-05)