normalize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
rail-transport
railways
sciences
statistics
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin norma
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin nōrmālisder.
English normal
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English normalize
From normal + -ize.
Inflected forms:
form: normalizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: normalizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: normalized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: normalized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: normalise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: To make normal, to bring into alignment with an established standard.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: To consider normal, to treat as standard in the face of older norms.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To format in a standardized manner, to make consistent.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We'll need to normalize these statements before we can compare them.
gloss: To become normal; to return to a normal state.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To reduce the variations by excluding irrelevant aspects.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
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 ].
gloss: To return a set of points (switches) to the normal position.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To return to the normal position from the reverse position.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To subject to normalization; to eliminate redundancy in (a model for storing data).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To anneal (steel) for the purpose of decreasing brittleness and increasing ductility.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To divide a vector by its magnitude to produce a unit vector.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: normal
normalization
normalized
normalizer
normalizes
normalizing
Derived words: denormalize
heteronormalize
misnormalize
nonnormalized
normalizability
normalizable
orthonormalized
pseudonormalize
renormalize
unnormalize
unnormalized
self-normalize
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: palauttaa
lang: Finnish
word: palautua
lang: German
word: normieren
lang: German
word: normalisieren
lang: Polish
word: unormować