Normalization

Normalization or normalisation refers to 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 in quantum mechanics, see Wave function § Normalization condition and normalized solution
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"

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, adjusting a floating point number's exponent so that the decimal point is in a fixed position
Probability amplitude § Normalization

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
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

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