normalization
- Noun. 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.
- Noun. standardization, act of imposing standards or norms or rules or regulations.
- Noun. (computing) In relational database design, a process that breaks down data into record groups for efficient processing, by eliminating redundancy.
- Noun. (diplomacy) Process of establishing normal diplomatic relations between two countries.
- Noun. (economics) globalization, the process of making a worldwide normal and dominant model of production and consumption.
- Noun. (operations) Making a normalized production.
- Noun. (politics) Sharing or enforcement of standard policies.
- Noun. (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.
- Noun. (statistics) The process of removing statistical error in repeated measured data.
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