normalisation

n. act of making normal; process of establishing normal diplomatic relations between two countries (also normalization)

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:Database normalization, used in database theory. (See also denormalization)Normalisation of a wavefunction in quantum mechanicsNormalisation (people with disabilities) Normalizing constant, used in mathematics, perhaps most often in  probability theoryNormalization (audio)Normalization (Czechoslovakia), the restoration of the conditions prevalent before the reform in Czechoslovakia, 1969Normalization (economics), which pertains when only relative prices matterNormalization (image processing)Normalization (metallurgy)Normalization (sociology)Normalization (statistics)Normalization model (visual neuroscience)Normalization of a function (in general calculus) is the process of  removing a discontinuity (or singularity).Normalization property, used in Raymond's term rewriting systemsText normalization
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Noun
1. the imposition of standards or regulations; "a committee was appointed to recommend terminological standardization"
(synonym) standardization, standardisation, normalization
(hypernym) social control
(hyponym) stabilization, stabilisation
(derivation) normalize, normalise, renormalize, renormalise

n. normalization, process of establishing normal diplomatic relations between two countries, standardization, act of imposing a standard

1. <data processing> A transformation applied uniformly to each element in a set of data so that the set has some specific statistical property. For example, monthly measurements of the rainfall in London might be normalised by dividing each one by the total for the year to give a profile of rainfall throughout the year.
2. Representation of a floating-point number so that its mantissa's left-most digit is non-zero. If the leftmost fraction digit are zeros, the number is said to be unnormalised. Unnormalised numbers are normalised by shifting the fraction left, one digit at a time, until the leftmost digit is nonzero and reducing the exponent by the number of shifts.
3.  database normalisation.
(1998-04-15)