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n. 1 (context databases English) Any of various forms of a relational database providing criteria for determining a table's degree of vulnerability to logical inconsistencies and anomalies. 2 (context game theory English) A matrix that represents the possible outcomes of a game 3 (context mathematics English) A standard, canonical way of presenting an object.
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Normal form may refer to:
- Normal form (abstract rewriting)
- Normal form (databases)
- Normal form (game theory) - see Normal-form game
- Normal form (mathematics) (often called canonical form or standard form)
- Normal form in music
In formal language theory:
- Chomsky normal form
- Greibach normal form
- Kuroda normal form
- Normal form (abstract rewriting), an element of a rewrite system which cannot be further rewritten
In logic:
- Algebraic normal form
- Canonical normal form
- Clausal normal form
- Conjunctive normal form
- Disjunctive normal form
- Negation normal form
- Prenex normal form
- Skolem normal form
In lambda calculus:
- Beta normal form
An inference of natural deduction is a normal form, according to Dag Prawitz, if no formula occurrence is both the principal premise of an elimination rule and the conclusion of an introduction rule.
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In abstract rewriting, an object is in normal form if it cannot be rewritten any further. Depending on the rewriting system and the object, several normal forms may exist, or none at all.
In mathematics, the normal form of a bifurcation is a simple dynamical system which is equivalent to all systems exhibiting this bifurcation.
Normal forms are defined for local bifurcations. It is assumed that the system is first reduced to the center manifold of the equilibrium point at which the bifurcation takes place. The reduced system is then locally (around the equilibrium) topologically equivalent to the normal form of the bifurcation.
For example, the normal form of a saddle-node bifurcation is $\frac{\mathrm{d}x}{\mathrm{d}t} = \mu + x^2$ where μ is the bifurcation parameter.
Usage examples of "normal form".
She waved a hand over her body again and her reflected image returned to its normal form.
Even if none of them were large enough for my normal form, I could always shift to my smaller bat form and sleep that way.
Marguerite had taken her normal form except for the slight translucence that was mandated of fully nannite entities.
Since it was the Keldara's normal form of movement, they did it so automatically they'd become damned near perfect.
Polyon waited, one rooted foot contracting as he tapped it, stretching and looping over itself like a snake, then deflating again into the normal form of a regulation Academy boot.
I don't know exactly how the Tanu Skin works, but it may be possible to utilize it to alter your grossly mutated bodies back into a more normal form.
Perhaps he was an accident and the other was the normal form of his kind.
He now smelled like a dog to them, instead of smelling most noticeably of leopard and lion tail- the snakelike forward part of his normal form had little smell worth sniffing at more than once.
Nada had reverted to her normal form, that of a serpent with a human head, and was sobbing.
Bane was safe -- except that he now stood in his normal form in the heart of the Orange Demesnes.