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:

• Database normalization, used in database theory. (See also denormalization)
• Normalisation of a wavefunction in quantum mechanics
• Normalisation (people with disabilities)
• Normalizing constant, used in mathematics, perhaps most often in probability theory
• Normalization (audio)
• Normalization (Czechoslovakia), the restoration of the conditions prevalent before the reform in Czechoslovakia, 1969
• Normalization (economics), which pertains when only relative prices matter
• Normalization (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 systems
• Text normalization