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proper noun 
  1. A diminutive of the male given name Norman.
Etymology: From a character of this name in government health promotion ads from the 1980s.

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noun 
  1. (the norm) That which is regarded as normal or typical.
Unemployment is the norm in this part of the country.
  1. (sociology) A rule that is enforced by members of a community
  2. (mathematics) A mode or average
  3. (analysis) A function, denoted , v, or , , v, , , that maps vectors to non-negative scalars and has the following properties:
  1. , v, > 0 or , v, = 0 iff v = 0;
  2. given a scalar k, , kv, = , k, ., v, , where , k, is the absolute value of k;
  3. given two vectors v and w, , v + w, ≤ , v, + , w, (the triangle inequality).
verb 
  1. (analysis) To endow (a vector space, etc) with a norm.
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