Norm
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Norm or NORM may refer to:
In academia
- Norm (artificial intelligence), a set of statements used to regulate artificial intelligence software
- Norm (philosophy), a standard in normative ethics that is prescriptive rather than a descriptive or explanatory abstraction
- Norm (social), expected patterns of behaviour and belief, often studied in sociology, social psychology, and many 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 (non-mobile older rural males), an acronym in dialect studies coined by Chambers and Trudgill (1980) for a group to which speakers frequently referred
In mathematics
- Norm (mathematics), a map that assigns lengths to vectors, with some variations:
- Normed vector space, a vector space on which a norm is defined
- Matrix norm, a natural extension of the notion of a vector norm to matrices
- Norm (abelian group), generalization to abelian groups
- Hölder mean, also known as the Power Mean or Generalized Mean
- Surface normal, a vector which is perpendicular to a surface
- Field norm in algebraic number theory and Galois theory
- Ideal norm, the ideal theoretic generalization of the field norm
- Norm (group), a certain subgroup of a group
- Norm (map), a map from a pointset into the ordinals inducing a prewellordering
- Norm group, a group in class field theory that is the image of the multiplicative group of a field
- Norm function, a term in Euclidean domain sometimes used in place of "Euclidean function"
People
- Norm Kelly, Canadian politician
- Norm Macdonald, Canadian comedian
- Norm Cox, American football player
- Norm Abram, carpenter in the television show This Old House
- Norm Harvey, American football player
- Norm Wells, American football player
In fiction
- Norm Peterson, a character in the sitcom Cheers and its spin-off Frasier
- Norm, a character from the Life. Be in it. campaign
- Norm the giant robot man, a recurring creation of Dr. Doofenshmirtz from Phineas and Ferb
Miscellaneous
- 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
- NORM (NACK-Oriented Reliable Multicast), a transport protocol as defined in RFC 5740
- The Norm (comic strip), syndicated by Michael Jantze
See also
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