normalize

Verb

become normal or return to its normal state
- "Let us hope that relations with this country will normalize soon"
make normal or cause to conform to a norm or standard
- "normalize relations with China"
- "normalize the temperature"
- "normalize the spelling"
bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling
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 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.

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

Origin / Etymology

From normal + -ize.

Synonyms

anneal, normalise, renormalise, renormalize, temper

Antonyms

reverse

Scrabble Score: 20

normalize: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
normalize: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
normalize: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 23

normalize: valid Words With Friends Word