Norm

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Norm, The 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
Peremptory norm, a fundamental principle of international law
Norm, a statistical concept in psychometrics representing the aggregate responses of a standardized and representative group
NORM, 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 refer

Norm (mathematics), a map that assigns lengths to vectors, with some variations:
- Matrix norm, a natural extension of the notion of a vector norm to matrices
- Norm (abelian group), generalization to abelian groups
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"

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
The Norm (comic strip), syndicated by Michael Jantze
The Norm (radio), a former CBC radio show
The Norm, a character in the 1989 film Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds