EGAVE

normalize

Academic Word List, sublist 2.

About 0.64 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb To make normal, to bring into alignment with an established standard.
    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. verb To consider normal, to treat as standard in the face of older norms.
  3. verb To format in a standardized manner, to make consistent.
    We'll need to normalize these statements before we can compare them.
  4. verb To become normal; to return to a normal state.
  5. verb To reduce the variations by excluding irrelevant aspects.
    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.
  6. verb To return a set of points (switches) to the normal position.
  7. verb To return to the normal position from the reverse position.
  8. verb To subject to normalization; to eliminate redundancy in (a model for storing data).

Similar words

standardize renormalize regularise regularize standardization standardise regulate stabilise normalise standardizing

Often followed by

the relations their and it blood its a this

Word family

normal normalisation normalise normalised normalises normalising normality normalizable normalization normalized

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