normalize
Americanverb (used with object)
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to make normal.
Traditional Chinese medicine uses ginseng to normalize blood pressure.
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to cause (something previously considered abnormal or unacceptable) to be treated as normal.
I have to resist the impulse to normalize her eccentricities.
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to establish or resume (relations) in a normal manner, as between countries.
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Statistics. to mathematically transform or adjust (the values in a data set) so that they fit a standard measure or scale, such as by making all the values fall between 0 and 1.
Data was normalized before analysis.
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Metallurgy. to heat (a steel alloy) to a suitable temperature above the transformation range and then cool it in still air at ambient temperature.
verb (used without object)
verb
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to bring or make into the normal state
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to bring into conformity with a standard
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to heat (steel) above a critical temperature and allow it to cool in air to relieve internal stresses; anneal
Other Word Forms
- denormalization noun
- normalization noun
- overnormalization noun
- overnormalize verb (used with object)
- renormalization noun
- renormalize verb (used with object)
- unnormalized adjective
- unnormalizing adjective
Etymology
Origin of normalize
Example Sentences
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“A normalized culture of theft and unresolved trauma” make “immediate rosy change unlikely.”
From MarketWatch
OTTAWA—Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to visit China next week, in the latest step to normalize ties with the world’s second-largest economy and reduce Canada’s reliance on the U.S. for trade.
Margins peaked early in the quarter but normalized in December, they say.
Japan normalized relations with Israel in 1952, the first Asian nation to do so.
No one wins when we normalize this game.
From Barron's
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