Synonyms of the word

norm

• n. (usually definite, the norm) That which is regarded as normal or typical.
• n. A rule that is enforced by members of a community.
• n. (philosophy, computer science) A sentence with non-descriptive meaning, such as a command, permission,…
• n. (chess) A high level of performance in a chess tournament, several of which are required for a player…
• v. (analysis) To endow (a vector space, etc) with a norm.

average

• n. (law, marine) Financial loss due to damage to transported goods; compensation for damage or loss.
• n. Customs duty or similar charge payable on transported goods.
• n. Proportional or equitable distribution of financial expense.
• n. (mathematics) The arithmetic mean.
• n. (statistics) Any measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode.
• n. (sports) An indication of a player's ability calculated from his scoring record, etc.
• n. (Britain, in the plural) In the corn trade, the medial price of the several kinds of grain in the principal…
• adj. (not comparable) Constituting or relating to the average.
• adj. Neither very good nor very bad; rated somewhere in the middle of all others in the same category.
• adj. Typical.
• adj. (informal) Not outstanding, not good, banal; bad or poor.
• v. (transitive) To compute the average of, especially the arithmetic mean.
• v. (transitive) Over a period of time or across members of a population, to have or generate a mean value…
• v. (transitive) To divide among a number, according to a given proportion.
• v. (intransitive) To be, generally or on average.
• n. (Britain, law, obsolete) The service that a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the animals of the tenant,…

criterion

• n. A standard or test by which individual things or people may be compared and judged.

measure

• n. A prescribed quantity or extent.
• n. The act or result of measuring.
• n. Metrical rhythm.
• n. A course of action.
• v. To ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.
• v. To estimate the unit size of something.
• v. To judge, value, or appraise.
• v. To obtain or set apart; to mark in even increments.
• v. (rare) To traverse, cross, pass along; to travel over.
• v. To adjust by a rule or standard.
• v. To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; often with out or off.

standard

• adj. Falling within an accepted range of size, amount, power, quality, etc.
• adj. (of a tree or shrub) Growing alone as a free-standing plant; not trained on a post etc.
• adj. Having recognized excellence or authority.
• adj. Of a usable or serviceable grade or quality.
• adj. (not comparable, of a motor vehicle) Having a manual transmission.
• adj. As normally supplied (not optional).
• n. A principle or example or measure used for comparison.
• n. A vertical pole with something at its apex.
• n. A manual transmission vehicle.
• n. (botany) The upper petal or banner of a papilionaceous corolla.
• n. (shipbuilding) An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch…
• n. A large drinking cup.

statistic

• adj. Alternative form of statistical.
• n. A single item in a statistical study.
• n. A quantity calculated from the data in a sample, which characterises an important aspect in the sample…
• n. A person, or personal event, reduced to being an item of statistical information.

touchstone

• n. A stone used to check the quality of gold alloys by rubbing them to leave a visible trace.
• n. (figuratively, by extension) A standard of comparison or evaluation.