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Normal form

The term normal form is used in a variety of contexts:

In Boolean algebra:

In relational database theory

first normal form
second normal form
third normal form
fourth normal form

see Database normalization for all four.

In linear algebra:

Jordan normal form

To transform something into a normal form is often called normalization.

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