atomization

English

Examples
(database model): A table of sales orders stores only an identifier for each customer, and the customers' addresses and individualized preferences and settings are stored in a separate table of customers. A query for orders on a certain day runs against the aforementioned tables; the data for each day does not constitute a separate table.

Etymology

From atom +‎ -ization.

Noun

atomization (plural atomizations)

1. The act or an instance of atomizing.
   2. Converting liquid to mist.

      Synonyms: aerosolization, nebulization

   4. Separating pieces of data so as to put each piece in its optimal place within a relational database model, avoiding needless duplication and spurious dependencies.

      Holonym: normalization

Related terms

• atomize

Translations

the act of separating into atoms

Galician: atomización f German: Atomisierung (de) f Polish: atomizacja f Portuguese: atomização (pt) f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: атомизација f Latin: atomizacija (sh) f Spanish: atomización f