normalize
to make normal: Traditional Chinese medicine uses ginseng to normalize blood pressure.
to cause (something previously considered abnormal or unacceptable) to be treated as normal:I have to resist the impulse to normalize her eccentricities.
to establish or resume (relations) in a normal manner, as between countries.
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.
Metallurgy. to heat (a steel alloy) to a suitable temperature above the transformation range and then cool it in still air at ambient temperature.
to become normal; resume a normal state: Prices soon normalized after the war.
Origin of normalize
1- Also especially British, nor·mal·ise .
Other words from normalize
- nor·mal·i·za·tion [nawr-muh-lahy-zey-shuhn], /ˌnɔr mə laɪˈzeɪ ʃən/, noun
- de·nor·mal·i·za·tion, noun
- o·ver·nor·mal·i·za·tion, noun
- o·ver·nor·mal·ize, verb (used with object), o·ver·nor·mal·ized, o·ver·nor·mal·iz·ing.
- re·nor·mal·i·za·tion, noun
- re·nor·mal·ize, verb (used with object), re·nor·mal·ized, re·nor·mal·iz·ing.
- un·nor·mal·ized, adjective
- un·nor·mal·iz·ing, adjective
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024
How to use normalize in a sentence
He branded it a fifth-column invasion into popular culture, normalizing radical, even communist ambitions.
Glenn Beck Is Now Selling Hipster Clothes. Really. | Ana Marie Cox | December 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTGALLERY: CELEBRITIES BREASTFEEDING (PHOTOS) But really, this trend is about more than just normalizing breastfeeding.
Why Glamorous Celebrity Breastfeeding Photos Like Olivia Wilde’s Prove Women Can Have It All | Amanda Marcotte | August 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTPerhaps most importantly, normalizing marriage is a narrowing, rather than an expanding, of sexual possibility.
Were Christians Right About Gay Marriage All Along? | Jay Michaelson | May 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMoen sees the lack of comprehensive sex education as a deliberate barrier to normalizing sex in society.
‘Oh Joy Sex Toy’: The Internet’s Most Radical Sex-Fueled Comic Strip | Rich Goldstein | May 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTNormalizing means becoming genuinely engaged in the political and policy-making system.
We must recognize that books also must be a force in reconstructing or normalizing the influences of their environment.
British Dictionary definitions for normalize
normalise
/ (ˈnɔːməˌlaɪz) /
to bring or make into the normal state
to bring into conformity with a standard
to heat (steel) above a critical temperature and allow it to cool in air to relieve internal stresses; anneal
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Browse