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")

In mathematics

• 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
• Ideal norm, 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.
• In Euclidean domain, many authors use "norm function" in place of "Euclidean function".

People

• Norm Macdonald (b. 1963), a Canadian comedian
• Norm Abram, carpenter in the television show This Old House

Fictional

• Norm Peterson, a character in the sitcom Cheers and its spin-off Frasier.

Cheers's most popular running gag occurred when Peterson would enter the bar, say "Evening, everybody.", and the entire bar would respond, shouting "NORM!"

• 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
• NACK-Oriented Reliable Multicast (NORM) transport protocol, as defined in RFC 5740
• The Norm a syndicated comic strip by Michael Jantze

See also

• The Norm (disambiguation)
• Norman (disambiguation)
• Normal (disambiguation)
• Norma (disambiguation)