Normalization or normalisation refers to a process that makes something more normal or regular.
Science
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Normalization process theory, a sociological theory of the implementation of new technologies or innovations
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Normalization model, used in visual neuroscience
* Normalization in quantum mechanics, see and
normalized solution
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Normalization (sociology)
Normalization refers to social processes through which ideas and actions come to be seen as ' normal' and become taken-for-granted or 'natural' in everyday life. There are different behavioral attitudes that humans accept as normal, such as grie ...
or social normalization, the process through which ideas and behaviors that may fall outside of
social norm
A social norm is a shared standard of acceptance, acceptable behavior by a group. Social norms can both be informal understandings that govern the behavior of members of a society, as well as be codified into wikt:rule, rules and laws. Social norma ...
s come to be regarded as "normal"
Mathematics and statistics
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Normalization of an algebraic variety, the operation consisting in taking locally the integral closure of the ring of regular functions
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Normalization (statistics)
In statistics and applications of statistics, normalization can have a range of meanings. In the simplest cases, normalization of ratings means adjusting values measured on different scales to a notionally common scale, often prior to averaging ...
, adjustments of values or distributions in statistics
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Quantile normalization, statistical technique for making two distributions identical in statistical properties
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Normalizing (abstract rewriting), an abstract rewriting system in which every object has at least one normal form
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Normalization property (abstract rewriting), a property of a rewrite system in mathematical logic and theoretical computer science
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Normalizing constant, in probability theory a constant to make a non-negative function a probability density function
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Noether normalization lemma, the result of commutative algebra
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Vector normalization
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Normalized number, a number in
scientific notation
Scientific notation is a way of expressing numbers that are too large or too small to be conveniently written in decimal form, since to do so would require writing out an inconveniently long string of digits. It may be referred to as scientif ...
with the decimal point in a consistent position
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Technology and computer science
* A metallurgic process used in
annealing
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Normalization (image processing), changing the range of pixel intensity values
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Audio normalization
Audio normalization is the application of a constant amount of gain to an audio recording to bring the amplitude to a target level (the norm). Because the same amount of gain is applied across the entire recording, the signal-to-noise ratio and ...
, a process of uniformly increasing or decreasing the amplitude of an audio signal
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Data normalization, general reduction of data to canonical form
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Normal number, a floating point number that has exactly one bit or digit to the left of the radix point
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Database normalization, used in database theory
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Dimensional normalization, or snowflaking, removal of redundant attributes in a dimensional model
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NFD normalization (''normalization form canonical decomposition''), a normalization form decomposition for Unicode string searches and comparisons in text processing
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Spatial normalization, a step in image processing for neuroimaging
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Text normalization, modifying text to make it consistent
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URL normalization
URI normalization is the process by which Uniform Resource Identifier, URIs are modified and standardized in a consistent manner. The goal of the normalization process is to transform a URI into a normalized URI so it is possible to determine i ...
, process to modify URLs in a consistent manner
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Normalization (machine learning), a technique in machine learning to change activation patterns to be on a similar scale.
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Normalized frequency (digital signal processing), unit of frequency cycles/sample in digital signal processing
Other
* The process of establishing normal
diplomatic relations between two countries
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Normalization (people with disabilities), principle to make conditions of everyday living available to people with disabilities
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Normalization (Czechoslovakia), the restoration of the conditions prevalent before the reform in Czechoslovakia, 1969
See also
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Normalized frequency (disambiguation)
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Normal form (disambiguation)
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Normal (disambiguation)
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Renormalization
Renormalization is a collection of techniques in quantum field theory, statistical field theory, and the theory of self-similar geometric structures, that is used to treat infinities arising in calculated quantities by altering values of the ...
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