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:
- Audio normalization
- Database normalization, used in database theory. (See also denormalization)
- Knowledge normalization
- Normalisation of a wavefunction in quantum mechanics
- Normalisation (people with disabilities)
- Normalizing constant, used in mathematics, perhaps most often in probability theory
- 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), used in 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
- Range normalization
- Text normalization
- Normalization of relations, a concept in diplomacy
- Normalization of speech sounds in speech perception