normalize
Pronunciation: /ˈnɔː.mə.laɪz/
The English word “normalize” has 11 meanings listed here.
verb
- To make normal, to bring into alignment with an established standard.
- To consider normal, to treat as standard in the face of older norms.
- To format in a standardized manner, to make consistent.
- To become normal; to return to a normal state.
- To reduce the variations by excluding irrelevant aspects.
- To return a set of points (switches) to the normal position.
- To return to the normal position from the reverse position.
- To subject to normalization; to eliminate redundancy in (a model for storing data).
- To anneal (steel) for the purpose of decreasing brittleness and increasing ductility.
- To divide a vector by its magnitude to produce a unit vector.
- 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.
Etymology
From normal + -ize.
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