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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun norm has 2 senses
- norm(n = noun.linkdef) Array - a standard or model or pattern regarded as typical; "the current middle-class norm of two children per family" is a kind of criterion, measure, standard, touchstone
- norm(n = noun.cognition) average - a statistic describing the location of a distribution; "it set the norm for American homes" is a kind of statistic
has particulars: age norm, modal value, mode, median, median value, mean, mean value
CIDE DICTIONARY
- A rule or authoritative standard; a model; a type; as, deviations from the norm are not tolerated. [1913 Webster]
- A typical, structural unit; a type. Agassiz. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
norm, n.
1 a standard or pattern or type.
2 a standard quantity to be produced or amount of work to be done.
3 customary behaviour etc.
1 a standard or pattern or type.
2 a standard quantity to be produced or amount of work to be done.
3 customary behaviour etc.
Etymology
L norma carpenter's square
THESAURUS
norm
Procrustean law, Ten Commandments, Weltanschauung, Zeitgeist, average, axiology, balance, barometer, behavioral norm, benchmark, business ethics, canon, center, check, climate, climate of opinion, code, code of ethics, code of morals, commandment, convention, criterion, decalogue, degree, dictum, ethic, ethical system, ethics, ethos, form, formality, formula, formulary, gauge, general principle, generality, golden mean, golden rule, graduated scale, guideline, guiding principle, happy medium, ideology, imperative, intellectual climate, juste-milieu, law, law of nature, legal ethics, maxim, mean, measure, median, medical ethics, mediocrity, medium, middle, middle course, middle ground, middle point, middle position, middle state, middle-of-the-road, midpoint, mitzvah, model, moral, moral climate, moral code, moral principles, morals, mores, new morality, norma, normal, normative system, norms, order of nature, ordinance, par, parameter, pattern, prescribed form, prescription, principium, principle, principles, professional ethics, quantity, reading, readout, regulation, rubric, rule, run, scale, set form, settled principle, social ethics, spiritual climate, standard, standards, standing order, tenet, test, touchstone, type, universal law, usual, value, value system, via media, working principle, working rule, world view, yardstickROGET THESAURUS
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Precept
N precept, direction, instruction, charge, prescript, prescription, recipe, receipt, golden rule, maxim, rule, canon, law, code, corpus juris, lex scripta, act, statute, rubric, stage direction, regulation, form, formula, formulary, technicality, canon law, norm, order.
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