Norm
- Proper noun. (given name, male) .
- Noun. (Australia) A lazy, inactive man.
- Noun. (usually, definite) That which is regarded as normal or typical.
- Noun. A rule that is enforced by members of a community.
- Noun. (philosophy, computer science) A sentence with non-descriptive meaning, such as a command, permission(,) or prohibition.
- Noun. (mathematics) A function, generally denoted or , that maps vectors to non-negative scalars and has the following properties:.
- Verb. (analysis) To endow (a vector space, etc) with a norm.
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