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 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"

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, 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

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
 * 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
 * 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