Norm

Norm or NORM may refer to:

In academia

A designated standard of average performance of people of a given age, background, etc.

Norm (artificial intelligence), a set of statements used to regulate artificial intelligence software
Norm (philosophy), sentences within philosophy with practical implications
Norm (social), expected patterns of behaviour and belief, often studied in sociology, social psychology, and a myriad of other academic fields.
Peremptory norm, a fundamental principle of international law which is accepted by the international community of states as a norm from which no derogation is ever permitted
Norm, a statistical concept in psychometrics representing the aggregate responses of a standardized and representative group are established for a test, against which a subject is compared
NORM, an abbreviation for naturally occurring radioactive materials
NORM, an acronym coined by Chambers and Trudgill (1980) to refer to a group speakers frequently used in dialect studies ("non-mobile older rural males")

Norm (mathematics), a map that assigns lengths to vectors, with some variations:
- Normed vector space
- Matrix norm
Surface normal, a vector which is perpendicular to a surface
Field norm in algebraic number theory and Galois theory
Norm of an ideal, the ideal theoretic generalization of the field norm
Norm (group), a certain subgroup of a group
Norm (abelian group), generalization of norm to abelian groups
A map from a pointset into the ordinals, inducing a prewellordering
In class field theory, a norm group is a group that is the image of the multiplicative group of a field.

The Norm Show, a television series featuring Norm Macdonald as the titular character
Grandmaster norm, a chess result required to qualify for an official title
Norms Restaurants, a chain of restaurants in Southern California