Normalization

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Broadly, normalization (also spelled normalisation) is any process that makes something more normal, which typically means conforming to some regularity or rule, or returning from some state of abnormality. It has specific meanings in various fields:

• Normalizing constant, perhaps most often in probability theory
• An abstract rewriting system is said normalizing if all objects have at least one normal form.
  • This notion has direct application to lambda calculus.
• Normalization of statistics, the process of removing statistical error from measured data
• Normalization of a function (in general calculus) is the process of removing a discontinuity (or singularity).
• Normalization of a scheme

Science

• Social Normalization, the process through which ideas and actions are made to appear culturally "normal."
• Normalization model, used in visual neuroscience
• Normalisable wave function in quantum mechanics
• Numéraire, which pertains when only relative prices matter
• Normalization Process Theory, which explains the processes by which innovations become routinely incorporated in their social contexts.

Technology

• Database normalization, used in database theory. (See also denormalization)
• Normalization (audio)
• Normalization (image processing)
• Text normalization

Political science

• Normalization of international relations between states, expressed in diplomatic relations, trade relations, culture, tourism and various collaborations.

Other

• Normalisation (people with disabilities)
• Normalization (Czechoslovakia), the restoration of the conditions prevalent before the reform in Czechoslovakia, 1969
• Normalization (metallurgy)

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See also

Mathematics:

• Fully normalized subgroup
• Noether normalization lemma
• Normalized moments