NORMALISATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does normalisation mean? 

• NORMALISATION (noun)
  The noun NORMALISATION has 1 sense:

1. the imposition of standards or regulations

  Familiarity information: NORMALISATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NORMALISATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The imposition of standards or regulations

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

normalisation; normalization; standardisation; standardization

Context example:

a committee was appointed to recommend terminological standardization

Hypernyms ("normalisation" is a kind of...):

social control (control exerted (actively or passively) by group action)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "normalisation"):

stabilisation; stabilization (the act of stabilizing something or making it more stable)

stylisation; stylization (the act of stylizing; causing to conform to a particular style)

Derivation:

normalise (make normal or cause to conform to a norm or standard)