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Normal form
Any of various forms of a relational database providing criteria for determining a table's degree of vulnerability to logical inconsistencies and anomalies.
📖 Definitions of "Normal form"
noun
- 1
Any of various forms of a relational database providing criteria for determining a table's degree of vulnerability to logical inconsistencies and anomalies.
- 2
A matrix that represents the possible outcomes of a game
- 3
A standard, canonical way of presenting an object.
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Normal form"
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| Word | Definition |
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| first normal formnoun | (databases) A stage in the normalization of a relational database in which repeating groups and attributes have been eliminated by putting each into a separate table connected by a primary-key/foreign-key relationship. |
| second normal formnoun | (databases) A stage in the normalization of a relational database in which it is in first normal form and every non-key attribute is dependent upon the entire primary key. |
| fourth normal formnoun | (databases) A stage in the normalization of a relational database in which a database is in Boyce-Codd normal form and all multi-valued dependencies are functional dependencies. |
| fifth normal formnoun | (databases) A stage in the normalization of a relational database in which a database is in fourth normal form and every join dependency is implied by the candidate keys. |
| boyce-codd normal formnoun | (databases) A stage in the normalization of a relational database in which a database is in third normal form and all determinants are candidate keys. |
| backus normal formnoun | (obsolete) The Backus-Naur form. |
| data modelnoun | (databases) A database model, such as relational or hierarchical. |
| canonical formnoun | (mathematics, computing) A standard or normal presentation of a mathematical entity or a text string, etc. |
| relational modelnoun | (databases) A database model that is based on first-order predicate logic. |
| database modelnoun | Any fundamental way of organizing data in a database, such as the hierarchical model, the network model or the relational model. |
| conjunctive normal formnoun | (logic) The form of a Boolean formula that the formula has if the formula is a conjunction of disjunctions of literals, such as “(A or B or C) and (D or E or not F)”. |
| canonical disjunctive normal formnoun | (logic) Disjunctive normal form with the additional property that all of the terms of the sum contain the same literals, so that the terms differ from each other only in their patterns of complementation (of their literals). |
| disjunctive normal formnoun | (logic) The form of a boolean formula that the formula has if the formula is a disjunction of conjunctions of literals, such as “(A and B and C) or (D and E and not F)”. |
| algebraic normal formnoun | (algebra, logic) ring sum normal form |
| clausal normal formnoun | (logic) Synonym of conjunctive normal form. |
| prenex normal formnoun | (logic) A way of expressing a formula of predicate logic such the formula consists of a prenex and a matrix, with the prenex preceding the matrix. |
| normal form gamenoun | (game theory) Formally, a structure (P, mathbf S, mathbf F) where P = {1,2, ...,m} is a set of players, mathbf S=(S_1,S_2,…,S_m) is an m-tuple of pure strategy sets, one for each player, and mathbf F=(F_1,F_2,…,F_m) is an m-tuple of payoff functions. |
| nullformnoun | (mathematics) A vector that has no invariants. |
| tuplenoun | (databases) A single row in a relational database. |
| relationnoun | The manner in which two things may be associated. |
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