The word norm coming from the latin word norma which means "angle measure" or (lawlike) "rule", has a number of meanings: Etymology is the study of the origins of words. ... Latin is the language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ... This article is about angles in geometry. ...

• A social or sociological norm; see norm (sociology).
• For philosophy, semantics and law, see norm (philosophy), which is a sentence or a meaning unit.
• A statistical concept in psychometrics.
• In mathematics, a norm can be
  • A map which assigns a length to vectors, see norm (mathematics), normed vector space. See also matrix norm.
  • The nonnegative integer function in the definition of Euclidean domain;
  • The product of conjugate elements of an algebraic element;
  • The field norm in algebraic number theory and Galois theory.
  • The reduced norm in the theory of algebras.
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Other meanings, not related to norma, include: Social interactions of people and their consequences are the subject of sociology studies. ... In sociology, a norm, or social norm, is a pattern of behavior expected within a particular society in a given situation. ... The term philosophy derives from a combination of the Greek words philos meaning love and sophia meaning wisdom. ... In general, semantics (from the Greek semantikos, or significant meaning, derived from sema, sign) is the study of meaning, in some sense of that term. ... Law (a loanword from Old Norse lag), in politics and jurisprudence, is a set of rules or norms of conduct which mandate, proscribe or permit specified relationships among people and organizations, provide methods for ensuring the impartial treatment of such people, and provide punishments for those who do not follow... Norms are a sort of sentences or sentence meanings, the most common of which are commands and permissions. ... Sentence, derived from Latin sententia (perception, in the subjective sense of how one feels reality is), has three common meanings: Sentence (linguistics) Sentence (mathematical logic) Open sentence (a term that mathematics teachers attempted to introduce, but not used by mathematicians) Sentence (law) Sentence (music) This is a disambiguation page — a... Meaning is studied in philosophy and linguistics. ... Statistics, or data analysis, is the science and practice of developing knowledge through the use of empirical data expressed in quantitative form. ... Psychometrics is the field of study (connected to psychology and statistics) concerned with the measurement psychological aspects of a person such as knowledge, skills, abilities, or personality. ... Wikibooks Wikiversity has more about this subject: School of Mathematics Wikiquote has a collection of quotations by or about: Mathematics Look up Mathematics in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Wikimedia Commons has more media related to: Mathematics Bogomolny, Alexander: Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles. ... In physics and engineering, the word vector typically refers to a quantity that has close relationship to the spatial coordinates, informally described as an object with a magnitude and a direction. The word vector is also now used for more general concepts (see also vector and generalizations below), but this... In linear algebra, functional analysis and related areas of mathematics a norm is a function which assigns a positive length or size to all vectors in a vector space, other than the zero vector. ... In mathematics, with 2- or 3-dimensional vectors with real-valued entries, the idea of the length of a vector is intuitive and can be easily extended to any real vector space Rn. ... In mathematics, the term matrix norm can have two meanings: A vector norm on matrices, i. ... In abstract algebra, a Euclidean domain (also called a Euclidean ring) is a type of ring in which the Euclidean algorithm can be used. ... In mathematics, the roots of polynomials are in abstract algebra called algebraic elements. ... In mathematics, the (field) norm is a mapping defined in field theory, to map elements of a larger field into a smaller one. ... In mathematics, an algebraic number field (or simply number field) is a finite field extension of the rational numbers Q. That is, it is a field which contains Q and has finite dimension when considered as a vector space over Q. The study of algebraic number fields, and these days... In mathematics, Galois theory is a branch of abstract algebra. ... In mathematics, an algebra over a field K, or a K-algebra, is a vector space A over K equipped with a compatible notion of multiplication of elements of A. A straightforward generalisation allows K to be any commutative ring. ... The term normal has many meanings, as listed below. ...

• NORM - Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material.
• The name "Norm", short for Norma or Norman.
  • Norm Peterson is a character in the sitcom Cheers, and a spin-off, Norm.
  • "Norm" was the World War II United States Navy codename for the Japanese Kawanishi E15K floatplane.