Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
normalize \normalize\ v.
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To make normal; as, to normalize relations with China.
Syn: renormalize.
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To make standard; determine the value by comparison to an item of known standard value; as, The test results were normalized for changes in the number of questions before comparison with the previous year's values.
Syn: standardize.
To convert to a standard form or measure; adjust the value or values so as to conform to a standard measure or pattern; as, The probabilities were normalized to add up to 1.00.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1865, from normal + -ize. Related: Normalized; normalizing.
Wiktionary
alt. 1 (context transitive English) To make normal, to make standard. 2 (context transitive English) To format in a standardized manner, to make consistent. 3 (context transitive statistics English) To reduce to variations by excluding irrelevant aspects. 4 (context rail transport transitive English) To return a set of points (railroad switch) to the normal position. 5 (context rail transport intransitive of points English) To return to the normal position from the reverse position. 6 (context transitive computing database English) To subject to normalization; to eliminate redundancy in (a model for storing data). 7 (context transitive mathematics English) To divide a vector by its magnitude to produce a unit vector. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To make normal, to make standard. 2 (context transitive English) To format in a standardized manner, to make consistent. 3 (context transitive statistics English) To reduce to variations by excluding irrelevant aspects. 4 (context rail transport transitive English) To return a set of points (railroad switch) to the normal position. 5 (context rail transport intransitive of points English) To return to the normal position from the reverse position. 6 (context transitive computing database English) To subject to normalization; to eliminate redundancy in (a model for storing data). 7 (context transitive mathematics English) To divide a vector by its magnitude to produce a unit vector.
WordNet
v. become normal or return to its normal state; "Let us hope that relations with this country will normalize soon" [syn: normalise]
make normal or cause to conform to a norm or standard; "normalize relations with China"; "normalize the temperature"; "normalize the spelling" [syn: normalise, renormalize, renormalise]
toughen (steel or glass) by a process of gradually heating and cooling; "temper glass" [syn: anneal, temper]
Usage examples of "normalize".
Sperm coverings would lose their grip and fall away into hot little eddies of nonrelativistic spacetime that would take years to normalize.
In November 1984, Saddam's foreign minister, Tariq Aziz, went to Washington to normalize ties with the United States and announced that Iraq would accept "a just, honorable, and lasting settlement" to the Arab-Israeli conflict.
And Corrigan liked working there because it offered a respite from the various dementias of the age that he was supposed to want to normalize himself by imitating.
I expect yo'll be glad when the other Directorates and the labor agencies get set up proper an' things normalize.
He's been told there will be an indefinite suspension of all flights, from all spaceports, until the Earth situation normalizes again.
Kamal said more calmly, his jawline and his team's normalizing as Jose nervously lowered his weapon.
After normalizing the feeling in her hand, he commanded: In just a moment, I'm going to tell you to forget the tests we've just been doing, but you will remain completely under my control and answer truthfully any questions I ask you.
Precisely by virtue of their obsolescence, calls to subjective agency, or to collective imagination and mobilization, merely reinforce the feedback loops of normalizing power.
After normalizing the feeling in her hand, he commanded: "In just a moment, I'm going to tell you to forget the tests we've just been doing, but you will remain completely under my control and answer truthfully any questions I ask you.
Since normalizing trade relations is a current goal of our government, and since Vorreedi is apparently good at sorting out haut-lords and ghem-lords, Vorob'yev detailed him to take care of it while he's stuck here with the ceremonial duties.
Only when this had been accomplished did the provisional government start with its task of normalizing the situation on Plophos so that the planet could get back to its normal routine.
Ewell thought that moving into the cabin was good for me, a move toward normalizing my life.