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norm

/nɔːm/ · noun

Meaning

  1. That which is normal or typical.
  2. A rule that is enforced by members of a community.
  3. A sentence with non-descriptive meaning, such as a command, permission or prohibition.
  4. 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:
  5. A high level of performance in a chess tournament, several of which are required for a player to receive a title.
  6. To endow (a vector space, etc) with a norm.

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data