noun
Norma
noun
1
A carpenter's or mason's square, used for checking and marking right angles.
"The old toolbox still held a wooden norma for squaring joints."
2
A standard, rule, or model that something is measured against (used in specialist or technical writing).
"The report set out the norma for acceptable emissions levels."
How to Use Norma
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishA technical or old-fashioned word for a measuring square, or for a rule/standard used as a benchmark.
Common mistake
In everyday speech people almost always just say "norm" or "standard" — "norma" mainly survives as a given name and in specialist or historical writing.
Word Forms
normas plural
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Etymology
From Latin norma, "carpenter's square" or "rule" — the same root that gives English the everyday word "norm."