norm

Pluralnorms

1. 1
   nouncountable

   A rule that people in a group are expected to follow and keep each other to.

   Like an unwritten rule everyone in a group agrees to follow.

   Saying "please" and "thank you" is a social norm in many families.

   Every group has norms that its members are expected to follow.

   Similarrule, convention, standard, custom, principle

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2. 2
   nouncountable

   The usual or expected thing that most people are used to.

   Like the regular pattern you come to expect every day.

   Working from home has become the norm for many people.

   For this town, hot and dry summers are the norm.

   Similarstandard, rule, convention, custom

   Oppositeexception, anomaly

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3. 3
   nouncountable

   In math, a function that gives every vector a number acting like its length, following certain fixed rules.

   The norm of the vector (3, 4) is 5.

   Different norms can give the same vector different sizes.

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