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From Latin norma ("a carpenter's square, a rule, a pattern, a precept").

Full definition of norm

(plural norms)

(usually definite, the norm) That which is regarded as normal or typical.Unemployment is the norm in this part of the country.

2011, December 16, Denis Campbell, Hospital staff 'lack skills to cope with dementia patients', "This shocking report proves once again that we urgently need a radical shake-up of hospital care," said Jeremy Hughes, chief executive of the Alzheimer's Society. "Given that people with dementia occupy a quarter of hospital beds and that many leave in worse health than when they were admitted, it is unacceptable that training in dementia care is not the norm."

A rule that is enforced by members of a community.Not eating your children is just one of those societal norms.
(philosophy, computer science) A sentence with non-descriptive meaning, such as a command, permission, or prohibition.
(mathematics) 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:

\left\|v\right\|\ne0

given a scalar $k$ , $\left\|kv\right\|=\left|k\right|\cdot\left\|v\right\|$ , where $\left|k\right|$ is the absolute value of

k

given two vectors $v,w$ , $\left\|v+w\right\|\le\left\|v\right\|+\left\|w\right\|$ (the triangle inequality).

(chess) A high level of performance in a chess tournament, several of which are required for a player to receive a title.

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