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Norm is a synonym of type.


As a proper noun norm

is .

As a verb type is

.

As an adjective type is

stereotypical.

norm

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) norme, from (etyl), from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun) (wikipedia norm)
  • That which is regarded as normal or typical.
    • Unemployment is the norm in this part of the country.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=December 16 , author=Denis Campbell , title=Hospital staff 'lack skills to cope with dementia patients' , work=Guardian citation , page= , passage="This shocking report proves once again that we urgently need a radical shake-up of hospital care," said Jeremy Hughes, chief executive of the Alzheimer's Society. "Given that people with dementia occupy a quarter of hospital beds and that many leave in worse health than when they were admitted, it is unacceptable that training in dementia care is not the norm ."}}
  • A rule that is enforced by members of a community.
    • Not eating your children is just one of those societal norms .
  • (philosophy, computer science) A sentence with non-descriptive meaning, such as a command, permission or prohibition.
  • (mathematics) A function, generally denoted v\mapsto\left, v\right, or v\mapsto\left\, v\right\, , that maps vectors to non-negative scalars and has the following properties:
  • # if v\ne0 then \left\, v\right\, \ne0;
  • # given a scalar k, \left\, kv\right\, =\left, k\right, \cdot\left\, v\right\, , where \left, k\right, is the absolute value of k;
  • # given two vectors v,w, \left\, v+w\right\, \le\left\, v\right\, +\left\, w\right\, (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.
    • Hyponyms
    * (mathematics) absolute value, p -adic absolute value, trivial absolute value
    Derived 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 -norm
    Related terms
    * abnormity * abnormous * normal * normated * normatic * normative * normo-

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (analysis) To endow (a vector space, etc) with a norm.
    • Derived terms
    * norming

    See also

    * normalize, normalise

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    type

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
    • , author=Lee A. Groat, volume=100, issue=2, page=128, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= Gemstones , passage=Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are diamond, ruby and sapphire, emerald and other gem forms of the mineral beryl, chrysoberyl, tanzanite, tsavorite, topaz and jade.}}
  • An individual considered typical of its class, one regarded as typifying a certain profession, environment, etc.
  • * 2002 , Pat Conroy, The Great Santini , page 4:
    • "I just peeked out toward the restaurant and there are a lot of Navy types in there. I'd hate for you to get in trouble on your last night in Europe."
  • An individual that represents the ideal for its class; an embodiment.
  • * 1872 , Mary Rose Godfrey, Loyal , volume 3, page 116:
    • Altogether he was the type of low ruffianism — as ill-conditioned a looking brute as ever ginned a hare.
  • (printing, countable) A letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block.
  • # (uncountable) Such types collectively, or a set of type of one font or size.
  • # (chiefly, uncountable) Text printed with such type, or imitating its characteristics.
  • The headline was set in bold type .
  • (biology) An individual considered representative of members of its taxonomic group.
  • Preferred sort of person; sort of person that one is attracted to.
  • (biology) A blood group.
  • (theology) An event or person that prefigures or foreshadows a later event - commonly an Old Testament event linked to Christian times.
  • (computing theory) A tag attached to variables and values used in determining which kinds of value can be used in which situations; a data type.
  • (fine arts) The original object, or class of objects, scene, face, or conception, which becomes the subject of a copy; especially, the design on the face of a medal or a coin.
  • (chemistry) A simple compound, used as a mode or pattern to which other compounds are conveniently regarded as being related, and from which they may be actually or theoretically derived.
    • The fundamental types used to express the simplest and most essential chemical relations are hydrochloric acid, water, ammonia, and methane.
  • (mathematics) A part of the partition of the object domain of a logical theory (which due to the existence of such partition, would be called a typed'' theory). (''Note : this to the notion of "data type" in computing theory.)
  • * Types, theory of. V.N. Grishin (originator), Encyclopedia of Mathematics . URL: http://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php?title=Types,_theory_of&oldid=14150
    • Logics of the second and higher orders may be regarded as type -theoretic systems.
    Categorial grammar is like a combination of context-free grammar and types .

    Synonyms

    * (grouping based on shared characteristics) category, class, genre, group, kind, sort, tribe * (computing theory) data type * (printing) sort * See also

    Derived terms

    * antitype * archetype * blood type * built-in type * composite type * cotype * ideal type * movable type * normal type * primitive type * structured type * typeface * type-safe * typesetter * typewriter * typography * typology * typology * user-defined type

    Verb

    (typ)
  • To put text on paper using a typewriter.
  • To enter text or commands into a computer using a keyboard.
  • To determine the blood type of.
    • The doctor ordered the lab to type the patient for a blood transfusion.
  • To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand; to prefigure.
  • To furnish an expression or copy of; to represent; to typify.
  • * Tennyson
    • Let us type them now in our own lives.

    Related terms

    * typing * typist * typo

    Descendants

    * Esperanto: (l)

    Anagrams

    * 1000 English basic words ----