Usually means: Standards guiding behavior within groups.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. norms: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. norms: Merriam-Webster
  3. norms: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. norms: Collins English Dictionary
  5. norms: Vocabulary.com
  6. Norm's, Norms, norms: Wordnik
  7. norms: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. norms: Wiktionary
  9. norms: Dictionary.com
  10. norms: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Norms (sociology), Norms: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Norms: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Norms: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. norms: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Norms: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sociology (No longer online)
  2. NORMS: Acronym Finder

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Norms: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (NORM)

noun:  That which is normal or typical.
noun:  A rule that is imposed by regulations and/or socially 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 which satisfies a particular set of formal conditions, created to generalize the notion of the length of a vector. Formally, a real-valued function on a vector space, generally denoted v↦|v| or v↦‖v‖, that satisfies the following properties:
noun:  if v ne 0 then ‖v‖ ne 0;
noun:  given a scalar k, ‖kv‖=|k|·‖v‖, where |k| is the absolute value of k;
noun:  given two vectors v,w, ‖v+w‖<‖v‖+‖w‖ (the triangle inequality).
noun:  (mathematics) Any of several generalizations of the above: a field norm, ideal norm, etc.
noun:  (algebra) An element of the image of some (generalized) norm, the element then said to be from the norm in question, or from the structure which gave rise to the norm.
noun:  (chess) A high level of performance in a chess tournament, several of which are required for a player to receive a title.
verb:  (mathematical analysis) To endow (a vector space, etc.) with a norm.
noun:  A diminutive of the male given name Norman.
noun:  Initialism of naturally occurring radioactive materials.
noun:  (linguistics, countable) Initialism of nonmobile older rural male.
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