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| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : nawrm |
| Phonetic Transcription : nɔrm |
Definition of norms
Origin :- "standard, pattern, model," 1821, from French norme, from Latin norma "carpenter's square, rule, pattern," of unknown origin. Klein suggests a borrowing (via Etruscan) of Greek gnomon "carpenter's square." The Latin form of the word, norma, was used in English in the sense of "carpenter's square" from 1670s.
- noun average, standard
- Unless they are rooted in our own life, these norms are like misty forms in the air.
- Extract from : « Life's Basis and Life's Ideal » by Rudolf Eucken
- We perceive this in the norms with which the research of the present is busily occupied.
- Extract from : « Life's Basis and Life's Ideal » by Rudolf Eucken
- The norms of one will not satisfy the conditions of another stage of manifestation.
- Extract from : « The Mystery of Space » by Robert T. Browne
- Production norms under the system have been low because of technological advances and the infrequency of adjustment of norms.
- Extract from : « Area Handbook for Bulgaria » by Eugene K. Keefe, Violeta D. Baluyut, William Giloane, Anne K. Long, James M. Moore, and Neda A. Walpole
- If he exists at all, his norms of worth may be, and probably are, very different from ours.
- Extract from : « The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 6 » by Various
- The Norms are going to start a class in basketry; who wants to join?
- Extract from : « The Girl Scouts at Camp Comalong » by Lillian Garis
- Grace was more daring than any of the others, and kept the Norms and Miss Mackin busy shouting warnings to her.
- Extract from : « The Girl Scouts at Camp Comalong » by Lillian Garis
- We are going to have all the Norms down, announced Miss Mackey, who had been up in the devastated region all the afternoon.
- Extract from : « The Girl Scouts at Camp Comalong » by Lillian Garis
- Norms and potency become two indissoluble factors in the evolution of the higher life.
- Extract from : « An Interpretation of Rudolf Eucken's Philosophy » by W. Tudor Jones
- We have already noticed how the presence of norms and standards were necessitated by the very theory of knowledge itself.
- Extract from : « An Interpretation of Rudolf Eucken's Philosophy » by W. Tudor Jones
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