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3NF

3NF is the initialism of third normal form.

Meaning of third normal form

Noun

third normal form (plural third normal forms)

  1. A stage in the normalization of a relational database in which a database is in second normal form and all non-key attributes are mutually independent (no transient dependencies.)

Forms of 3NF

plural3NFs

Questions about 3NF

What is 3NF the initialism of?
3NF is the initialism of third normal form.

Words near 3NF in the dictionary

  1. 3Hs
  2. 3L
  3. 3LOD
  4. 3Ls
  5. 3M
  6. 3NF
  7. 3NFs
  8. 3OT
  9. 3OTs
  10. 3P
  11. 3peat

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Adapted from Wiktionary: 3NF (page history and authors); third normal form (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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