normalize

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

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