Etymology

renormalization

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Today it means: Any of several techniques in statistical mechanics and quantum electrodynamics used to construct mathematical relationships between observable quantities. Full definition →

English normalization ← Middle English re- ← Old French re-
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  1. Proto-Italic*wre-
  2. Latinre-
  3. Old Frenchre-
  4. Middle Englishre-
  5. Englishre-
  6. Englishnormalization
  7. English todayrenormalization

From re- + normalization.

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