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Norm or NORM may refer to:
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[edit] 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")
[edit] In mathematics
- Norm (mathematics), a map that assigns lengths to vectors, with some variations:
- 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.
[edit] 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
- Norm, a character from the Life. Be in it. campaign
- Norm the giant robot man from Phineas and Ferb
[edit] 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
[edit] See also
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