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norma — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • magnitude noun The size, scale, or importance of something.
  • norm noun What is considered typical, standard, or expected.
  • Norma noun A carpenter's or mason's square, used for checking and marking right angles.
  • policy noun A course of action or set of principles adopted by a government, organization, or person.
  • rule noun An official regulation or guideline that governs behaviour or a process.
  • standard adj Usual, regular, or typical; falling within an accepted, expected range.
  • touchstone noun A dark stone once used to test the purity of gold or silver by rubbing the metal on it and examining the streak left behind.
  • yardstick noun A measuring rod thirty-six inches (one yard) long.

Senses

norma is used for these senses in English:

  • Norma (constellation) An inconspicuous constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a carpenter's square. It lies south of the constellations Scorpius and Centaurus.
  • magnitude (astronomy) A logarithmic scale of brightness defined so that a difference of 5 magnitudes is a factor of 100.
  • rule A regulation, law, guideline.
  • standard Something used as a measure for comparative evaluations; a model.
  • touchstone (figurative, by extension) A standard of comparison or evaluation.
  • yardstick (figuratively) A standard to which other measurements or comparisons are judged.

magnitude — full definition

  1. noun The size, scale, or importance of something.
  2. noun A number on a scale used to measure how strong an earthquake is.
  3. noun (astronomy) A number on a scale used to measure how bright a star or other object appears.

norm — full definition

  1. noun What is considered typical, standard, or expected.
  2. noun An unwritten rule of behavior enforced by a community or society.
  3. noun In mathematics, a function that measures the size or length of a vector.

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