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 Dictionary entry overview: What does norm mean? 

• NORM (noun)
  The noun NORM has 2 senses:

1. a standard or model or pattern regarded as typical

2. a statistic describing the location of a distribution

  Familiarity information: NORM used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NORM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A standard or model or pattern regarded as typical

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Context example:

the current middle-class norm of two children per family

Hypernyms ("norm" is a kind of...):

criterion; measure; standard; touchstone (a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A statistic describing the location of a distribution

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

average; norm

Context example:

it set the norm for American homes

Hypernyms ("norm" is a kind of...):

statistic (a datum that can be represented numerically)

Domain category:

statistics (a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "norm"):

age norm (the average age at which particular performances are expected to appear)

modal value; mode (the most frequent value of a random variable)

median; median value (the number midway between the two middle numbers in a series containing an even or odd number of items)

mean; mean value (an average of n numbers computed by adding some function of the numbers and dividing by some function of n)

 Context examples 

In Europe, tighter emission norms have reduced the number of nanoparticles emitted by diesel engines.

(Nanoparticles raise vascular risk by escaping the lungs, SciDev.Net)

Varying from the norm; not conformable to the type.

(Atypical, NCI Thesaurus)

Deviating in any way from the state, position, structure, condition, behavior, or rule which is considered a norm.

(Abnormal, NCI Thesaurus)

Result: norms that vary hugely from one country to another.

(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)

Being approximately average or within certain limits; conforming with or constituting a norm or standard or level or type or social norm.

(Normal, NCI Thesaurus)

This committee is a part of an international organization that promotes the norms, values, standards, and ethics of the sciences of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

(Nomenclature Committee of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, NCI Thesaurus)

This integrative research used innovative technological advancements to bring studies of animal movement from closely controlled conditions in the laboratory into the field, where unsteady and intermittent flows are more the norm.

(Scientists discover how birds navigate crosswinds, National Science Foundation)

The first project was, to shorten discourse, by cutting polysyllables into one, and leaving out verbs and participles, because, in reality, all things imaginable are but norms.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Social norms dictate that we should forgive someone if they apologize, which puts the targets of social rejection in a difficult position if they aren't ready to do this or think the apology is insincere.

(Sometimes You Shouldn't Say Sorry, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The intense prehistoric hurricanes were fueled in part by warmer sea surface temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean than have been the norm off the U.S. East Coast over the last few hundred years.

(Monster hurricanes struck U.S. Northeast during prehistoric periods of ocean warming, NSF)