Lexic.us

Definition of Normalize

1. Verb. Become normal or return to its normal state. "Let us hope that relations with this country will normalize soon"

2. Verb. Make normal or cause to conform to a norm or standard. "Normalize the spelling"

3. Verb. Bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling. "Temper glass"

Definition of Normalize

1. Verb. (transitive) To make normal, to make standard. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To format in a standardized manner, to make consistent. ¹

3. Verb. (transitive) (statistics) To reduce to variations by excluding irrelevant aspects. ¹

4. Verb. (rail transport transitive) To return a set of points (switches) to the normal position. ¹

5. Verb. (rail transport intransitive of points) To return to the normal position from the reverse position. ¹

6. Verb. (transitive) (computing database) To subject to normalization; to eliminate redundancy in (a model for storing data). ¹

7. Verb. (transitive) (mathematics) To divide a vector by its magnitude to produce a unit vector. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Normalize

1. [v -IZED, -IZING, -IZES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Normalize

normalin normalisable normalisation normalise normalised normaliser normalisers normalises normalish normalising

normalities normality normalizable normalization normalizations normalize (current term) normalized normalized yield normalizer normalizers

normalizes normalizing normally normally black normally posed tooth normally white normalness normals norman normande

Literary usage of Normalize

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Nuclear Nonproliferation: Implementation of the U. S. by Gene Aloise (1998)
"... of Actions to normalize Economic and Political Relations Between the United States and North Korea Modest Improvements in Economic Relations Between the ..."

2. Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act: Congressional Hearing edited by Bill McCollum (2002)
"Efforts to normalize relations with Castro are ongoing. ... The effort to normalize relations with out a single political concession from Castro to the ..."

3. SAS/ETS(R) 9.1 User's Guide, Volumes 1, 2, 3, and 4 by SAS Institute (2004)
"For fitting case 1, model yl y2 Ip=2 ecm=(rank=1 normalize=yl) noint; For fitting case 2, model yl y2 Ip=2 ecm= (rank=1 normalize=yl ..."

4. First Text Retrieval Conference (Trec-1): Proceedings by D. K. Harman (1993)
"Context Vector for Document normalize Vector Sum Inverse Frequency Weighting ... Then we can sum the corresponding context vectors and normalize the result. ..."

5. Reviews in Environmental Health (1998): Toxicological Defense Mechanics edited by Gary E. R. Hook, George W. Lucier (2000)
"In the meantime, it is necessary to attempt to normalize the data (as in ... The attempt to normalize in vitro data to relative potencies was much less ..."

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