Meaning of normalize in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

verb

• To make normal, to make standard.

  Example: 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.

• To format in a standardized manner, to make consistent.

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

• To reduce to variations by excluding irrelevant aspects.

  Example: 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.

• To return a set of points (switches) to the normal position.

• (of points) To return to the normal position from the reverse position.

• To subject to normalization; to eliminate redundancy in (a model for storing data).

• To divide a vector by its magnitude to produce a unit vector.