norm

• POS: Noun

CIDE DICTIONARY

norm, n. [L. norma a rule. See Normal, a.].

•  A rule or authoritative standard; a model; a type; as, deviations from the norm are not tolerated.  [1913 Webster]
•  A typical, structural unit; a type.  Agassiz.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

norm, n.
1 a standard or pattern or type.
2 a standard quantity to be produced or amount of work to be done.
3 customary behaviour etc.

Etymology

L norma carpenter's square

THESAURUS

norm

Procrustean law, Ten Commandments, Weltanschauung, Zeitgeist, average, axiology, balance, barometer, behavioral norm, benchmark, business ethics, canon, center, check, climate, climate of opinion, code, code of ethics, code of morals, commandment, convention, criterion, decalogue, degree, dictum, ethic, ethical system, ethics, ethos, form, formality, formula, formulary, gauge, general principle, generality, golden mean, golden rule, graduated scale, guideline, guiding principle, happy medium, ideology, imperative, intellectual climate, juste-milieu, law, law of nature, legal ethics, maxim, mean, measure, median, medical ethics, mediocrity, medium, middle, middle course, middle ground, middle point, middle position, middle state, middle-of-the-road, midpoint, mitzvah, model, moral, moral climate, moral code, moral principles, morals, mores, new morality, norma, normal, normative system, norms, order of nature, ordinance, par, parameter, pattern, prescribed form, prescription, principium, principle, principles, professional ethics, quantity, reading, readout, regulation, rubric, rule, run, scale, set form, settled principle, social ethics, spiritual climate, standard, standards, standing order, tenet, test, touchstone, type, universal law, usual, value, value system, via media, working principle, working rule, world view, yardstick

ROGET THESAURUS

norm

Precept

N precept, direction, instruction, charge, prescript, prescription, recipe, receipt, golden rule, maxim, rule, canon, law, code, corpus juris, lex scripta, act, statute, rubric, stage direction, regulation, form, formula, formulary, technicality, canon law, norm, order.