Word Finder - norm

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That which is normal or typical.

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Unemployment is the norm in this part of the country.

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A rule that is enforced by members of a community.

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Not eating your children is just one of those societal norms.

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A sentence with non-descriptive meaning, such as a command, permission or prohibition.

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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:

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A high level of performance in a chess tournament, several of which are required for a player to receive a title.

The royal norm was heavier than the common norm.

The more he stepped out of the norm to please her, the more uneasy she became.

Courts of law are now the norm in the world, with laws being democratically established and widely published.

John Ratzenberger - ' Cliff Clavin ' Cliff is Norm's partner in crime and fellow barfly.

Deep blood red lipstick is the norm for Gothic makeup.

Good walking boots are more the norm rather than rubber boots for most Brazil tours.

For example, the norm of a one-act ballet was established, as well as the introduction of musical interludes to avoid long intervals.

These imposed deadlines have become the norm both for the public sector and commercial business.

It is suffused with " magic realism " a folk surrealism in which people fly and mysterious juxtapositions are the norm.

As is the norm with this series, you play the commander, collect weapons, and complete missions.

This is a Tuesday, as is the norm with musical CD releases.

This theme was fortunately soon exhausted and more lively extra-terrestrial interactions became the norm.

Norm and Lily Goldman are a unique husband and wife team, writer and water colorist, who write and paint about romantic destinations.

The system which has seen cavalier disregard of immigration rules become the norm in the Home office.

In highland Britain a pattern of scattered farmsteads remained the norm.

Ken You're getting finicky in your old age, Norm.

Guillemots are extremely gregarious, colonial breeding is the norm and colonies can contain many tens of thousands of individuals.

Norm were ready to climb on ' is cart an ' depart When he heard a loud grunt from a bush.

In the absence of such systems, inefficiency creates work and manually intensive work-arounds and rechecks become the norm.

The aim here is to provide a feedback loop to enable a process of continual improvement to become the norm.

It was the mid 30's before the all metal monoplane became the norm.

Indeed, networks are still the exception in this market, where the norm is to deliver nationwide from a single base.

We need more teachers in training to avoid the four-day week becoming the norm.

This established a norm for the pacing of the activity.

In this regard, I would like to propose the concept of shared or mutual value-creation as a behavioral norm for the new era.

This is more akin to a moral norm or a code of conduct among a group of pile owners.

The global non-proliferation norm has been firmly established - and it has been reaffirmed in your last two review conferences.

Norm builds one out of poplar and birch plywood for a painted finish.

Long sonnets by Shakespeare or romantic poems by Browning and Lord Byron are the norm for love poetry.

The Steyn piece which Norm, after further preamble, went on to consider, merely shows his strengths and weakness.

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In 1977 tho when the norm was Elton John and Abba The Sex Pistols sounded very scary to the average public.

Indeed since 1828 this has more or less been the norm, health and environmental issues effectively stymieing alternative options.

Thank you very much, Senator Norm Coleman, who is chairing the subcommittee investigating the oil-for-food program.

By the time she turned 30, two bottles of dry white wine were her daily norm.

Years ago it was unheard of to stray from the norm.

Thanks to the Industrial Revolution, however, mechanized, mass production techniques for furniture production became the norm.

Looking your best is the norm for modern society, and even non-conformist modes of personal expression are increasingly accepted.

The ever-growing interest in greener living means that products like these may soon become the norm.

While a brown smoky eye is not the norm (blacks, greys, and purples ar more common), this can be a lovely and lighter smoky eye look.

Not only will you score a wealth of tips and application tricks, you're bound to break out of the norm and try a few new techniques that can really change up your beauty routine.

But why stick to the norm when the world is full of interesting breads that are just begging to be turned into a burger bun?

Long, slow cooking is the norm rather than the exception.

Minimum portions of foods cooked lightly to retain their crunch and nutritional value was the norm.

While we may occasionally know we are heading into an encounter with someone or something that will make us angry, this is certainly not the norm.

In the past you always knew what to buy; crayons pencils, paper and the like were the norm.

One important step is to encourage girls to step out of the cultural norm and explore what truly interests them - rather than follow in the path of what they might think to be expected of them.

If you find that tuxedos are the norm, then you will need to know the style you would like to wear, what accessories you need, and how much it will all cost.

Surfing the Internet and chatting on sites is the norm for many teenagers.

Text message acronyms have become the norm when texting.