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normalize in WordNet English dictionary
verb- bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling
"temper glass"
anneal temper normalize
- make normal or cause to conform to a norm or standard
"normalize relations with China"; "normalize the temperature"; "normalize the spelling"
normalize normalise renormalize renormalise
- become normal or return to its normal state
"Let us hope that relations with this country will normalize soon"
normalize normalise
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normalize in English Wiktionary
- (verb) (transitive) To make normal, to make standard
- (verb) (transitive) To format in a standardized manner, to make consistent.
- (verb) (statistics) To reduce to variations by excluding irrelevant aspects.
- (verb) (rail transport/transitive) to return a set of points to the normal position
- (verb) (rail transport/intransitive/of points) to return to the normal position from the reverse position
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