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4NF

4NF is the initialism of fourth normal form.

Meaning of fourth normal form

Noun

fourth normal form

  1. 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.

Forms of 4NF

plural4NFs

Questions about 4NF

What is 4NF the initialism of?
4NF is the initialism of fourth normal form.

Words near 4NF in the dictionary

  1. 4IR
  2. 4ktro
  3. 4ktros
  4. 4L
  5. 4Ls
  6. 4NF
  7. 4NFs
  8. 4PL
  9. 4Ps
  10. 4real
  11. 4rum

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Adapted from Wiktionary: 4NF (page history and authors); fourth 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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