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5NF

5NF is the initialism of fifth normal form.

Meaning of fifth normal form

Noun

fifth normal form (uncountable)

  1. A stage in the normalization of a relational database in which a database is in fourth normal form and every join dependency is implied by the candidate keys.

Forms of 5NF

plural5NFs

Questions about 5NF

What is 5NF the initialism of?
5NF is the initialism of fifth normal form.

Words near 5NF in the dictionary

  1. 5H
  2. 5head
  3. 5Hs
  4. 5K
  5. 5Ks
  6. 5NF
  7. 5NFs
  8. 5O
  9. 5s
  10. 5th
  11. 5th Amendment

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Adapted from Wiktionary: 5NF (page history and authors); fifth 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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