normalization

Meanings

Plural: normalizations

Noun

• the imposition of standards or regulations
• 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.
• In relational database design, a process that breaks down data into record groups for efficient processing, by eliminating redundancy.
• Process of establishing normal diplomatic relations between two countries.
• Globalization, the process of making a worldwide normal and dominant model of production and consumption.
• Normalized production.
• Sharing or enforcement of standard policies.
• 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.
• The process of removing statistical error in repeated measured data.

Name

• Peace efforts and treaties between the Arab League and Israel. See Arab–Israeli normalization.

Synonyms

normalisation, standardisation, standardization

Related Words

atomization, Boyce-Codd normal form, fifth normal form, first normal form, fourth normal form, regularization, second normal form, seminormalization, stabilization, standardization, third normal form