Examples of “norm” in a Sentence

noun What is considered typical, standard, or expected.

• Eating dinner together every evening was the norm in our house growing up.
• Working from home has become the norm for many companies.
• It's the norm to tip waiters in the US.

noun An unwritten rule of behavior enforced by a community or society.

• In many cultures, removing your shoes at the door is a basic social norm.
• Breaking a norm, such as talking loudly in a library, can earn you disapproving looks.
• Queuing politely is a strong social norm in Britain.

noun In mathematics, a function that measures the size or length of a vector.

• The lecturer showed us how to work out the norm of a simple two-dimensional vector.
• A norm must always give a result that is zero or greater.
• The Euclidean norm of the vector is calculated using the Pythagorean formula.