normalization
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Etymology
Noun
normalization (countable and uncountable, plural normalizations)
- Any process that makes something more normal or regular, which typically means conforming to some regularity or rule, or returning from some state of abnormality.
- standardization, act of imposing standards or norms or rules or regulations.
- (databases) In relational database design, a process that breaks down data into record groups for efficient processing, by eliminating redundancy.
- (diplomacy) Process of establishing normal diplomatic relations between two countries
- 2007, Joe Biden, “This Can't Hurt Us”, in Promises to Keep[1], New York: Random House, published 2008, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 143:
- On my first trip to China after normalization, I saw firsthand the possibility of leveraging Deng Xiaoping’s very real fear of the Soviets to gain specific intelligence aid from the People’s Republic of China.
- (economics) globalization, the process of making a worldwide normal and dominant model of production and consumption
- (operations) Normalized production. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (politics) Sharing or enforcement of standard policies.
- (sociology) A process whereby artificial and unwanted norms of behaviour and models of behaviour are made to seem natural and wanted, through propaganda, influence, imitation and conformity.
- (statistics) The process of removing statistical error in repeated measured data.
- (politics) Peace efforts and treaties between the Arab League and Israel. See Arab–Israeli normalization.
Related terms
- (separating data into an optimized relational data model): atomization
- regularization
- seminormalization
- standardization
- stabilization
Translations
any process that makes something more normal or regular
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See also
- (databases) first normal form
- (databases) second normal form
- (databases) third normal form
- (databases) fourth normal form
- (databases) fifth normal form
- (databases) Boyce-Codd normal form