Norm

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In academia
% designated standard of average performance of people of a given age, &ackground, etc.

'orm (artificial intelligence), a set of statements used to regulate artificial intelligence soft*are 'orm (philosophy), sentences *ithin philosophy *ith practical implications 'orm (social), e+pected patterns of &ehaviour and &elief, often studied in sociology, social psychology, and a myriad of other academic fields eremptory norm, a fundamental principle of international la* *hich is accepted &y the international community of states as a norm from *hich no derogation is ever permitted 'orm, a statistical concept in psychometrics representing the aggregate responses of a standardi,ed and representative group are esta&lished for a test, against *hich a su&-ect is compared './", an a&&reviation for naturally occurring radioactive materials './", an acronym coined &y 0ham&ers and 1rudgill (1234) to refer to a group speakers fre5uently used in dialect studies (6non7mo&ile older rural males6)

In mathematics

'orm (mathematics), a map that assigns lengths to vectors, *ith some variations: o 'ormed vector space o "atri+ norm o 'orm (a&elian group), generali,ation to a&elian groups $urface normal, a vector *hich is perpendicular to a surface

Field norm in alge&raic num&er theory and 8alois theory Ideal norm, the ideal theoretic generali,ation of the field norm 'orm (group), a certain su&group of a group % map from a pointset into the ordinals, inducing a pre*ellordering In class field theory, a norm group is a group that is the image of the multiplicative group of a field. In 9uclidean domain, many authors use 6norm function6 in place of 69uclidean function6.

People

'orm "acdonald (&. 12:!), a 0anadian comedian 'orm %&ram, carpenter in the television sho* This Old House

Fictional Norm Peterson, a character in the sitcom Cheers and its spin7off Frasier. 0heers;s most popular running gag occurred *hen eterson *ould enter the &ar, say "Evening, everybody.", and the entire &ar *ould respond, shouting "NORM "

Norm, a character from the Life. <e in it. campaign Norm the giant robot man, a recurring creation of =r. =oofenshmirt, from Phineas and Ferb

Miscellaneous

The Norm !ho", a television series featuring 'orm "acdonald as the titular character 8randmaster norm, a chess result re5uired to 5ualify for an official title 'orms /estaurants, a chain of restaurants in $outhern 0alifornia '%0>7.riented /elia&le "ulticast ('./") transport protocol, as defined in /F0 ?@#4 1he 'orm a syndicated comic strip &y "ichael Jant,e

See also

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