Norm Explained
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, shared standards of acceptable behavior by groups
- 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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