normalization
GIS
A conceptual database design task that involves applying data dependency to a data model to avoid data inconsistencies by prohibiting redundancy.
- — GIS Glossary retrieved 2014-05-27
Java
The process of removing redundancy by modularizing, as with subroutines, and of removing superfluous differences by reducing them to a common denominator. For example, line endings from different systems are normalized by reducing them to a single new line, and multiple whitespace characters are normalized to one space.