normalize

Verb

1. 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.
   • Advocacy groups have long known the power of TV plot lines. Back in the 1980s, the Harvard School of Public Health mounted a campaign to normalize the idea of a “designated driver” to reduce drunk driving. - 2014 March...
   • Whether or not the Trump administration moves ahead, officials and observers say the proposal has normalized the forcible transfer of Palestinians – classified as “ethnic cleansing” and a “war crime” by the United...
2. To consider normal, to treat as standard in the face of older norms.
3. To format in a standardized manner, to make consistent.
   • We'll need to normalize these statements before we can compare them.
4. To become normal; to return to a normal state.
5. 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.
   • The Dice coefficient normalizes for length by dividing by the total number of non-zero entries. We multiply by 2 so that we get a measure that ranges from 0.0 to 1.0 with 1.0 indicating identical vectors. - 1991,...
   • It is possible that electrical stimulation may also act centrally, neuromodulating the altered muscle contractibility mechanism, recruiting a larger number of muscle fibers and normalizing the tone of the masticatory,...
6. To return a set of points (switches) to the normal position.

   Antonyms: reverse

7. To return to the normal position from the reverse position.

   Antonyms: reverse

8. To subject to normalization; to eliminate redundancy in (a model for storing data).
9. To anneal (steel) for the purpose of decreasing brittleness and increasing ductility.
   • 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...
10. To divide a vector by its magnitude to produce a unit vector.
11. 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.