Norm vs Nor - What's the difference?
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That which is regarded as normal or typical.
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A rule that is enforced by members of a community.
(philosophy, computer science) A sentence with non-descriptive meaning, such as a command, permission or prohibition.
(mathematics) A function, generally denoted or , that maps vectors to non-negative scalars and has the following properties:
# if then ;
# given a scalar , , where is the absolute value of ;
# given two vectors , (the triangle inequality).
(chess) A high level of performance in a chess tournament, several of which are required for a player to receive a title.
(literary) And not ()
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(UK, dialect, Yorkshire) Than.
As nouns the difference between norm and nor
is that norm is that which is regarded as normal or typical while nor is alternative form of NOR|lang=en.As a verb norm
is to endow (a vector space, etc) with a norm.As a proper noun Norm
is a diminutive=Norman given name.As a conjunction nor is
and not (introducing a negative statement, without necessarily following one.norm
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) norme, from (etyl), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia norm)- Unemployment is the norm in this part of the country.
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- Not eating your children is just one of those societal norms .
Hyponyms
* (mathematics) absolute value, p -adic absolute value, trivial absolute valueDerived terms
* * * absolute norm * adnorm * age norm * Banach norm * basic norm * Bombieri norm * Chebyshev norm * complex norm * copynorm * * Cr -norm * cross norm * Dedekind-Hasse norm * dual norm * ethical norm * Euclidean matrix norm * Euclidean norm * Euclidean vector norm * exonorm * extended norm * field norm * flat norm * four-vector norm * Frobenius matrix norm * Frobenius norm * Frobenius norm function * grandmaster norm * graph norm * Hardy norm * Hilbert-Schmidt norm * ideological norm * induced norm * ?-norm * integral flat norm * * * L-infinity norm * mass norm * matrix F -norm * matrix norm * matrix p -norm * maximum absolute row column norm * maximum absolute row sum norm * maximum norm * metric induced by a norm * minimum norm property * Minkowski norm * moral norm * natural norm * normable * normed * norm form * norm function * normic form * normie * normless * normlessness * norm of an ideal * norm of communism * norm of disinterestedness * norm of organized skepticism * norm of reaction * norm of reciprocity * norm of universalism * norm-referenced * norm-referencing * norm-residue * norm resolvent convergence * norm theorem * nuclear norm * operator norm * p -adic norm * peremptory norm * p -norm * polynomial bar norm * polynomial bracket norm * polynomial norm * pseudonorm * quaternion norm * reduced norm * regular norm * relative norm * semi-norm, seminorm * sexual norm * social norm * spectral norm * spinor norm * spinorial norm * statistical norm * subordinate norm * sup norm, sup-norm * supremum norm * tobacco-free social norm * T-norm, t-norm * trace norm * uniform norm * vector norm * vector p -normEtymology 2
Derived terms
* normingSee also
* normalize, normaliseExternal links
* *Anagrams
* ----nor
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) nauther, from nother. Cognate with neither.Conjunction
(English Conjunctions)- Out with it, nor hold it fast within your breast.
- I love your majesty / According to my bond, nor more nor less.
- And, moreover, I had made my vow to preserve my rank unknown till the crusade should be accomplished; nor did I mention it
T time, passage=The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them