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Normalize

//ˈnɔː.mə.laɪz// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To make normal, to bring into alignment with an established standard. transitive

    "There is little hope that the two countries will normalize relations; their governments seem to hate each other and would just as soon stay on bad terms."

  2. 2
    bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling wordnet
  3. 3
    To consider normal, to treat as standard in the face of older norms. transitive
  4. 4
    make normal or cause to conform to a norm or standard wordnet
  5. 5
    To format in a standardized manner, to make consistent. transitive

    "We'll need to normalize these statements before we can compare them."

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  1. 6
    become normal or return to its normal state wordnet
  2. 7
    To become normal; to return to a normal state. intransitive
  3. 8
    To reduce the variations by excluding irrelevant aspects. transitive

    "After we properly normalize the measurements with respect to age, gender, geography and economic considerations, there remains little evidence of a difference between the two groups."

  4. 9
    To return a set of points (switches) to the normal position. transitive
  5. 10
    To return to the normal position from the reverse position. intransitive
  6. 11
    To subject to normalization; to eliminate redundancy in (a model for storing data). transitive
  7. 12
    To anneal (steel) for the purpose of decreasing brittleness and increasing ductility. transitive

    "Charpy impact testing showed that the normalized steel in the tank shell of the punctured chlorine car had a fracture toughness that was significantly greater than the fracture toughness of the non-normalized steels of the catastrophically ruptured tank cars involved in the derailment of a Canadian Pacific Railway freight train in Minot, North Dakota, in January 2002. The steel in the Minot tank cars exhibited relatively low fracture toughness, and cracks propagated rapidly around the circumference of each tank. The higher fracture toughness in the Graniteville tank car contributed to the relatively quick arrest of the crack even though there was brittle fracture in its outer portions."

  8. 13
    To divide a vector by its magnitude to produce a unit vector. transitive
  9. 14
    To constrain a number's absolute value to be 1 at maximum. More generally, to constrain the magnitude of a mathematical quantity to be 1 at maximum. transitive

Etymology

From normal + -ize.

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