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NORM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A statistic describing the location of a distribution
Example:
it set the norm for American homes
Synonyms:
average; norm
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("norm" is a kind of...):
statistic (a datum that can be represented numerically)
Domain category:
statistics (a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "norm"):
age norm (the average age at which particular performances are expected to appear)
modal value; mode (the most frequent value of a random variable)
median; median value (the number midway between the two middle numbers in a series containing an even or odd number of items)
mean; mean value (an average of n numbers computed by adding some function of the numbers and dividing by some function of n)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A standard or model or pattern regarded as typical
Example:
the current middle-class norm of two children per family
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("norm" is a kind of...):
criterion; measure; standard; touchstone (a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb norm
Context examples:
A subtype of circadian rhythm sleep disorder in which the individual exhibits a persistent pattern of late sleep onset and late awakening, which results from an endogenous sleep-wake cycle that is delayed relative to the societal norm.
(Delayed Sleep Phase Type Circadian Rhythm Sleep Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)
Comprises a set of group dynamics whereby a group in which one feels comfortable may override personal habits, individual moral inhibitions or idiosyncratic desires to impose a group norm of attitudes and/or behaviors.
(Peer Pressure, NCI Thesaurus)
The Commission has already spent 4 million Euros while the sector prospers in the absence of strict norms on mobile phones.
(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)
