In academia

• Norm (artificial intelligence)
  Norm (artificial intelligence)
  In Multi-Agent Systems , a branch of Artificial Intelligence , a Norm is a formal specification of a deontic statement that aims at regulating the life of software agents and the interactions among them. It can be an obligation, a permission or a prohibition, and is often represented with some...
  
  , a set of statements used to regulate artificial intelligence software
• Norm (philosophy)
  Norm (philosophy)
  Norms are concepts of practical import, oriented to effecting an action, rather than conceptual abstractions that describe, explain, and express. Normative sentences imply “ought-to” types of statements and assertions, in distinction to sentences that provide “is” types of statements and assertions...
  
  , sentences within philosophy with practical implications
• Norm (social), expected patterns of behaviour and belief, often studied in sociology
  Sociology
  Sociology is the study of society. It is a social science—a term with which it is sometimes synonymous—which uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about human social activity...
  
  , social psychology
  Social psychology
  Social psychology is the scientific study of how people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others. By this definition, scientific refers to the empirical method of investigation. The terms thoughts, feelings, and behaviors include all...
  
  , and a myriad of other academic fields.
• Peremptory norm
  Peremptory norm
  A peremptory norm is 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.There is no clear agreement regarding precisely which norms are jus cogens nor how a norm reaches that status, but...
  
  , 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
  Psychometrics
  Psychometrics is the field of study concerned with the theory and technique of psychological measurement, which includes the measurement of knowledge, abilities, attitudes, personality traits, and educational measurement...
  
   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 material
  Naturally occurring radioactive material
  Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials and Technologically Enhanced Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials consist of materials, usually industrial wastes or by-products enriched with radioactive elements found in the environment, such as uranium, thorium and potassium and any of their...
  
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• NORM, an acronym coined by Chambers
  Jack Chambers (linguist)
  J. K. "Jack" Chambers is a Canadian linguist, and a well-known expert on language variation and change, who pioneered research on Canadian English and coined the term "Canadian raising." He has been a professor of linguistics at the University of Toronto since receiving his a Ph.D. from the...
  
   and Trudgill
  Peter Trudgill
  Professor Peter Trudgill FBA is a sociolinguist, academic and author.He was born in 1943 in Norwich, England, where he attended the City of Norwich School from 1955....
  
   (1980) to refer to a group speakers frequently used in dialect studies
  Dialectology
  Dialectology is the scientific study of linguistic dialect, a sub-field of sociolinguistics. It studies variations in language based primarily on geographic distribution and their associated features...
  
   ("non-mobile older rural males")

In mathematics

• Norm (mathematics)
  Norm (mathematics)
  In linear algebra, functional analysis and related areas of mathematics, a norm is a function that assigns a strictly positive length or size to all vectors in a vector space, other than the zero vector...
  
  , a map that assigns lengths to vectors, with some variations:
  • Normed vector space
    Normed vector space
    In mathematics, with 2- or 3-dimensional vectors with real-valued entries, the idea of the "length" of a vector is intuitive and can easily be extended to any real vector space Rn. The following properties of "vector length" are crucial....
    
    
  • Matrix norm
• Surface normal
  Surface normal
  A surface normal, or simply normal, to a flat surface is a vector that is perpendicular to that surface. A normal to a non-flat surface at a point P on the surface is a vector perpendicular to the tangent plane to that surface at P. The word "normal" is also used as an adjective: a line normal to a...
  
  , a vector which is perpendicular to a surface
• Field norm
  Field norm
  In mathematics, the norm is a mapping defined in field theory, to map elements of a larger field into a smaller one.-Formal definitions:1. Let K be a field and L a finite extension of K...
  
   in algebraic number theory and Galois theory
• Norm of an ideal
  Norm of an ideal
  In commutative algebra, the norm of an ideal is a generalization of a norm of an element in the field extension. It is particularly important in number theory since it measures the size of an ideal of a complicated number ring in terms of an ideal in a less complicated ring...
  
  , the ideal theoretic generalization of the field norm
• Norm (group)
  Norm (group)
  In mathematics, in the field of group theory, the norm of a group is the intersection of the normalizers of all its subgroups. This is also termed the Baer norm, after Reinhold Baer.The following facts are true for the Baer norm:...
  
  , a certain subgroup of a group
• Norm (abelian group), generalization of norm to abelian group
  Abelian group
  In abstract algebra, an abelian group, also called a commutative group, is a group in which the result of applying the group operation to two group elements does not depend on their order . Abelian groups generalize the arithmetic of addition of integers...
  
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• A map from a pointset into the ordinals, inducing a prewellordering
  Prewellordering
  In set theory, a prewellordering is a binary relation that is transitive, wellfounded, and total. In other words, if \leq is a prewellordering on a set X, and if we define \sim byx\sim y\iff x\leq y \land y\leq x...
  
  
• In class field theory
  Class field theory
  In mathematics, class field theory is a major branch of algebraic number theory that studies abelian extensions of number fields.Most of the central results in this area were proved in the period between 1900 and 1950...
  
  , a norm group is a group that is the image of the multiplicative group of a field.

People

• Norm Macdonald
  Norm MacDonald
  Norman Gene "Norm" Macdonald is a Canadian stand-up comedian, writer and actor. He is best known for his five seasons as a cast member on Saturday Night Live, which included anchoring Weekend Update for three years...
  
   (b. 1963), a Canadian comedian
• Norm Abram
  Norm Abram
  Norman L. Abram, or Norm Abram, is an American carpenter known for his work on the PBS television programs This Old House and The New Yankee Workshop. He is referred to on these shows as a "master carpenter".-Early life and education:Abram was born in Woonsocket, Rhode Island and raised in...
  
  , carpenter in the television show This Old House

• Norm Peterson
  Norm Peterson
  Hillary Norman "Norm" Peterson is a character on the American television show Cheers, portrayed by George Wendt. Norm's real first name was revealed to be Hillary, named after his grandfather....
  
  , a character in the sitcom Cheers and its spin-off Frasier
• Norm, a character from the Life. Be in it.
  Life. Be in it.
  Life. Be in it. started as an Australian government program and advertising campaign encouraging people to be more active and participate in recreational sports or other physical activities....
  
   campaign
• Norm the giant robot man from Phineas and Ferb
  Phineas and Ferb
  Phineas and Ferb is an American animated television comedy series. Originally broadcast as a preview on August 17, 2007, on Disney Channel, the series follows Phineas Flynn and his English stepbrother Ferb Fletcher on summer vacation. Every day the boys embark on some grand new project, which...
  
  

Miscellaneous

• The Norm Show
  The Norm Show
  The Norm Show is an American television sitcom that ran from 1999 through 2001 on the ABC television network.-Synopsis:...
  
  , a television series featuring Norm Macdonald as the titular character
• Grandmaster norm
  Grandmaster norm
  A norm in chess is one of the requirements to receive a title such as Grandmaster from FIDE.- Grandmaster norm :In order to qualify for the title of Grandmaster of chess, a title awarded by FIDE, the World Chess Federation, a player must achieve three or more grandmaster norms in events covering a...
  
  , a chess result required to qualify for an official title
• Norms Restaurants
  Norms Restaurants
  Norms Restaurants is a chain of diner-style restaurants in Southern California. The chain was founded in 1949 and its restaurants are open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They advertise their hours with the line "We never close." There are currently 18 locations in Los Angeles, Orange and...
  
  , a chain of restaurants in Southern California

See also

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