norm
norm Lexical Profile
norm Game Scores & Validity
• noun
Something that is usual, typical, or standard within a society, group, or situation.
"Remote work has rapidly become the norm in many technology companies."
A required or acceptable standard of behavior, performance, or achievement enforced by a group or organization.
"Sociologists study how cultural norms shape individual decision-making."
A real-valued function that assigns a strictly positive length or size to each vector in a vector space (except the zero vector).
"The Euclidean norm measures the ordinary straight-line distance from the origin to a point."
• verb
To adjust or standardize (a test, score, or dataset) relative to an established standard or representative population.
"The psychological assessment was normed on a nationally representative sample of high school students."
• Rhymes for norm
Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the early 19th century from Latin norma, meaning 'carpenter's square' or 'rule, pattern, or precept', likely borrowed via Etruscan from Ancient Greek gnomon ('carpenter's square, judge').