normalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɔː.mə.laɪz/
ipa: /ˈnɔɹ.mə.laɪz/
ipa: /ˈnoː.mə.lɑɪz/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)məlaɪz
Forms: form: normalizes
form: normalizing
form: normalized
form: normalized
form: normalise
Etymology: From normal + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: 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.
text: 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.
ref: 2014 March 27, Robin Marantz Henig, “Fictional Plotlines and Real Assisted Suicide”, in The Atlantic:
text: 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 Nations.
ref: 2025 February 6, Taylor Luck, Ghada Abdulfattah, “How Trump’s proposed plan for Gaza has united an outraged Arab world”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
glosses: To make normal, to bring into alignment with an established standard.
glosses: To consider normal, to treat as standard in the face of older norms.
examples: text: We'll need to normalize these statements before we can compare them.
glosses: To format in a standardized manner, to make consistent.
examples: text: 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.
text: 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.
ref: 1991, Christopher D. Manning, Hinrich Schütze, Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, →ISBN, page 299:
text: 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, hyoid and pharyngeal muscles [38 ,39 ].
ref: 2015 August 7, “Effects of Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation on the Masticatory Muscles and Physiologic Sleep Variables in Adults with Cerebral Palsy: A Novel Therapeutic Approach”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: To reduce the variations by excluding irrelevant aspects.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
antonyms: reverse
glosses: To return a set of points (switches) to the normal position.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
antonyms: reverse
glosses: To return to the normal position from the reverse position.
raw_tags: of points
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To subject to normalization; to eliminate redundancy in (a model for storing data).
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2005 November 29, National Transportation Safety Board, “Tank Car Crashworthiness”, in Collision of Norfolk Southern Freight Train 192 With Standing Norfolk Southern Local Train P22 With Subsequent Hazardous Materials Release at Graniteville, South Carolina, January 6, 2005, archived from the original on 17 Jun 2022, page 50:
topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To anneal (steel) for the purpose of decreasing brittleness and increasing ductility.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: To divide a vector by its magnitude to produce a unit vector.
Derived terms: denormalize
heteronormalize
misnormalize
nonnormalized
normalizability
normalizable
orthonormalized
pseudonormalize
renormalize
unnormalize
unnormalized
self-normalize
Related terms: normal
normalization
normalized
normalizer
normalizes
normalizing