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

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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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