Norm : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Norm	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
norm n a standard or model or pattern regarded as typical; "the current middle-class norm of two children per family" a statistic describing the location of a distribution; "it set the norm for American homes" Synonym(s): average, norm
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Norm \Norm\, n. [L. norma a rule. See {Normal}, a.] 1. A rule or authoritative standard; a model; a type. 2. (Biol.) A typical, structural unit; a type. --Agassiz.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
norm A real-valued function modelling the length of a {vector}. The norm must be {homogeneous} and {symmetric} and fulfil the following condition: the shortest way to reach a point is to go straight toward it. Every {convex} symmetric {closed} surface surrounding point 0 introduces a norm by means of {Minkowski functional}; all vectors that end on the surface have the same norm then. The most popular norm is the {Euclidean norm}; it is calculated by summing up squares of all coordinates and taking the square root; this is the essence of {Pythagorus's theorem}. In the infinite-dimensional case, the sum is infinite or is replaced with an integral when the number of dimensions is {uncountable}. (1998-07-05)