Similar to you, sometimes my coworkers and I will use the terms 'normalized' and 'denormalized' when talking about databases. It is usually in reference to and

Similar to you, sometimes my coworkers and I will use the terms 'normalized' and 'denormalized' when talking about databases. It is usually in reference to and ideal schema versus a performant schema. We don't actually use the precise definitions of the various forms, or verify our schemas satisfy the various laws. Maybe there would be value in actually formally normalizing a schema.