Norm

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Norm, the Norm or NORM may refer to:

In academic disciplines

  • Normativity, phenomenon of designating things as good or bad
  • Norm (geology)
    , an estimate of the idealised mineral content of a rock
  • Norm (philosophy), a standard in normative ethics that is prescriptive rather than a descriptive or explanatory abstraction
  • Social norm, expected patterns of behavior and belief
  • Basic norm, a jurisprudence concept by Kelsen
  • Peremptory norm, a fundamental principle of international law
  • Norm (artificial intelligence), a set of statements used to regulate artificial intelligence software
  • 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

In mathematics

  • Norm (mathematics), a map that assigns a length or size to a mathematical object, including:
    • Vector norm
      , a map that assigns a length or size to any vector in a vector space
    • Matrix norm, a map that assigns a length or size to a matrix
    • Operator norm, a map that assigns a length or size to any operator in a function space
    • Norm (abelian group), a map that assigns a length or size to any element of an abelian group
  • Field norm a map in algebraic number theory and Galois theory that generalizes the usual distance norm
  • 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 the study of Euclidean domains, sometimes used in place of "Euclidean function"

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