Normalization, or normalisation, is a process that makes something more normal or regular.

Science

  • Normalization process theory, a sociological theory of the implementation of new technologies or innovations
  • Normalization model, used in visual neuroscience
  • Normalization (quantum mechanics)
  • Normalized solution (mathematics)
  • Normalization (sociology) or social normalization, the process through which ideas and behaviors that may fall outside of social norms come to be regarded as "normal"

Mathematics and statistics

  • Normalization of an algebraic variety, the operation consisting in taking locally the integral closure of the ring of regular functions
  • Normalization (statistics), adjustments of values or distributions in statistics
  • Quantile normalization, statistical technique for making two distributions identical in statistical properties
  • Normalizing (abstract rewriting), an abstract rewriting system in which every object has at least one normal form
  • Normalization property (abstract rewriting), a property of a rewrite system in mathematical logic and theoretical computer science
  • Normalizing constant, in probability theory a constant to make a non-negative function a probability density function
  • Noether normalization lemma, the result of commutative algebra
  • Vector normalization
  • Normalized number, a number in scientific notation with the decimal point in a consistent position

Technology and computer science

  • A metallurgic process used in annealing
  • Normalization (image processing), changing the range of pixel intensity values
  • Audio normalization, a process of uniformly increasing or decreasing the amplitude of an audio signal
  • Data normalization, general reduction of data to canonical form
  • Normal number, a floating point number that has exactly one bit or digit to the left of the radix point
  • Database normalization, used in database theory
  • Dimensional normalization, or snowflaking, removal of redundant attributes in a dimensional model
  • NFD normalization (normalization form canonical decomposition), a normalization form decomposition for Unicode string searches and comparisons in text processing
  • Spatial normalization, a step in image processing for neuroimaging
  • Text normalization, modifying text to make it consistent
  • URL normalization, process to modify URLs in a consistent manner
  • Normalization (machine learning), a technique in machine learning to change activation patterns to be on a similar scale.
  • 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
  • Normalization (people with disabilities), principle to make conditions of everyday living available to people with disabilities
  • Normalization (Czechoslovakia), the restoration of the conditions prevalent before the reform in Czechoslovakia, 1969

See also

  • Normalized frequency (disambiguation)
  • Normal form (disambiguation)
  • Normal (disambiguation)
  • Renormalization