normalize

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   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.
   • Advocacy groups have long known the power of TV plot lines. Back in the 1980s, the Harvard School of Public Health mounted a campaign to normalize the idea of a “designated driver” to reduce drunk driving.
   • Whether or not the Trump administration moves ahead, officials and observers say the proposal has normalized the forcible transfer of Palestinians – classified as “ethnic cleansing” and a “war crime” by the United Nations.
2. 2

   To consider normal, to treat as standard in the face of older norms.

3. 3

   To format in a standardized manner, to make consistent.

   • We'll need to normalize these statements before we can compare them.
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   1. 4

      To become normal

      To become normal; to return to a normal state.

   2. 5

      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.
      • The Dice coefficient normalizes for length by dividing by the total number of non-zero entries. We multiply by 2 so that we get a measure that ranges from 0.0 to 1.0 with 1.0 indicating identical vectors.
   3. 6

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

   4. 7

      To return to the normal position from the reverse position.

   5. 8

      To subject to normalization

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

   6. 9

      To anneal (steel) for the purpose of decreasing brittleness and increasing ductility.

   7. 10

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

   8. 11

      To constrain a number's absolute value to be 1 at maximum. More generally, to constrain…

      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.

The neighborhood

• neighbornormal
• neighbornormalization
• neighbornormalized
• neighbornormalizer
• neighbornormalizes
• neighbornormalizing