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Normal form

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

In Boolean algebra:

conjunctive normal form
disjunctive normal form

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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