normalize

verb normalizes · normalizing · normalized · normalise

1. transitive To make normal, to bring into alignment with an established 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.
2. transitive To consider normal, to treat as standard in the face of older norms.
3. transitive To format in a standardized manner, to make consistent. We'll need to normalize these statements before we can compare them.
4. intransitive To become normal; to return to a normal state.
5. transitive To reduce the 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.
6. transitive To return a set of points (switches) to the normal position.

   Opposite: reverse

7. intransitive, of points To return to the normal position from the reverse position.

   Opposite: reverse

8. transitive To subject to normalization; to eliminate redundancy in (a model for storing data).
9. transitive To anneal (steel) for the purpose of decreasing brittleness and increasing ductility. Charpy impact testing showed that the normalized steel in the tank shell of the punctured chlorine car had a fracture toughness that was significantly greater than the fracture toughness of the non-normalized steels of the catastrophically ruptured tank cars involved in the derailment of a Canadian
10. transitive To divide a vector by its magnitude to produce a unit vector.
11. transitive 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.