Normalize

Quick meaning: Normalize is a verb meaning (transitive) To make normal, to bring into alignment with an established standard.

Meaning

(transitive) To make normal, to bring into alignment with an established standard.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To consider normal, to treat as standard in the face of older norms.
2. (transitive) To format in a standardized manner, to make consistent.
3. (intransitive) To become normal; to return to a normal state.
4. (statistics, transitive) To reduce the variations by excluding irrelevant aspects.
5. (rail transport, transitive) To return a set of points (switches) to the normal position.
6. (rail transport, intransitive, of points) To return to the normal position from the reverse position.
7. (computing, databases, transitive) To subject to normalization; to eliminate redundancy in (a model for storing data).

Example Sentences

We'll need to normalize these statements before we can compare them.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• normalizes
• normalizing
• normalized
• normalise

Synonyms for normalize

Depending on context, synonyms include standardize, renormalize.

Antonyms for normalize

Common opposites include reverse.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include standardize, renormalize, regularise, regularize, standardization, standardise.

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