normalize
- Verb. (transitive) To make normal, to make standard.
- Verb. (transitive) To format in a standardized manner, to make consistent.
- Verb. (transitive) (statistics) To reduce to variations by excluding irrelevant aspects.
- Verb. (rail transport, transitive) To return a set of points (switches) to the normal position.
- Verb. (rail transport, intransitive) To return to the normal position from the reverse position.
- Verb. (transitive) (computing, database) To subject to normalization; to eliminate redundancy in (a model for storing data).
- Verb. (transitive) (mathematics) To divide a vector by its magnitude to produce a unit vector.
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