normalize
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈnɔː(ɹ).mə.laɪz/
normalize (normalizes, present participle normalizing; past and past participle normalized)
- (transitive) To make normal, to make standard.
- 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.
- (transitive) To format in a standardized manner, to make consistent.
- We'll need to normalize these statements before we can compare them.
- (transitive, statistics) To reduce to variations by excluding irrelevant aspects.
- 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.
- (rail transport, transitive) To return a set of points (switches) to the normal position.
- (rail transport, intransitive, of points) To return to the normal position from the reverse position.
- (transitive, computing, database) To subject to normalization; to eliminate redundancy in (a model for storing data).
- (transitive, mathematics) To divide a vector by its magnitude to produce a unit vector.
- (rail transport) reverse (transitive and intransitive)
- German: normalisieren
- Italian: normalizzare
- Spanish: normalizar
- German: normieren, normalisieren
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