WikiWord

norm

From WikiWord, the free dictionary

/nɔːm/ English

Definitions

noun

  1. That which is normal or typical.“Unemployment is the norm in this part of the country.”
  2. A rule that is enforced by members of a community.“Not eating your children is just one of those societal norms.”
  3. A sentence with non-descriptive meaning, such as a command, permission or prohibition.
  4. A function, generally denoted v\mapsto\left|v\right| or v\mapsto\left\|v\right\|, that maps vectors to non-negative scalars and has the following properties:

verb

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

Related words

Synonyms

Associated

Rhymes

References