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n. Any process that makes something more normal or regular, which typically means conforming to some regularity or rule, or returning from some state of abnormality.

n. standardization, act of imposing standards or norms or rules or regulations.

n. In relational database design, a process that breaks down data into record groups for efficient processing, by eliminating redundancy.

n. Process of establishing normal diplomatic relations between two countries

n. globalization, the process of making a worldwide normal and dominant model of production and consumption

n. Template:operations Making a normalized production.

n. Sharing or enforcement of standard policies

n. A process whereby artificial and unwanted norms of behaviour and models of behaviour are made to seem natural and wanted, through propaganda, influence, imitation and conformity.

n. The process of removing statistical error in repeated measured data.

n. Reduction to a standard or normal state.

n. The act or process of making normal; in biology, any process by which modified or morphologically abnormal forms and relations may be reduced, either actually or ideally, to their known primitive and presumed normal conditions; morphological rectification.

n. the imposition of standards or regulations

"That's the question at the centre of a hotly disputed election Saturday that will either give Mr. Ma and his Nationalist Kuomintang Party another term to pursue what he calls "normalization" with the mainland - or see Taiwan's 23 million people take a long step away from the People's Republic, and perhaps back toward the old showdown with Beijing."

social control   

third normal form    first normal form    Boyce-Codd normal form    second normal form    fifth normal form   

stabilization    standardization    regularization   

stabilization    stabilisation    stylisation    stylization   

Alsatian    Americanization    Appalachian    Balkanization    Christianization   

additivity    positive-definite    proportionality    regularization    isotropy