The average annual yield from one coffee tree is the equivalent of 1 to 1 1/2 pounds of roasted coffee. It takes about 4,000 hand-picked green coffee beans to make a pound of coffee.
NORMALIZE
anneal, temper, normalize
(verb) bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling; “temper glass”
normalize, normalise, renormalize, renormalise
(verb) make normal or cause to conform to a norm or standard; “normalize relations with China”; “normalize the temperature”; “normalize the spelling”
normalize, normalise
(verb) become normal or return to its normal state; “Let us hope that relations with this country will normalize soon”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
normalize (third-person singular simple present normalizes, present participle normalizing, simple past and past participle normalized)
(transitive) To make normal, to make standard.
(transitive) To format in a standardized manner, to make consistent.
(transitive, statistics) To reduce to variations by excluding irrelevant aspects.
(rail transport, transitive) To return a set of points (switches) to the normal position.
(rail transport, intransitive, of points) To return to the normal position from the reverse position.
(transitive, computing, database) To subject to normalization; to eliminate redundancy in (a model for storing data).
(transitive, mathematics) To divide a vector by its magnitude to produce a unit vector.
Antonyms
• (rail transport): reverse (transitive and intransitive)
Hyponyms
• (to subject to normalization): canonicalize
Source: Wiktionary
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(noun) anything in accord with principles of justice; “he feels he is in the right”; “the rightfulness of his claim”
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