normalize

verb

1. (transitive)To make normal, to bring into alignment with an established standard.

   “There is little hope that the two countries will normalize relations; their governments seem to hate each other and would just as soon stay on bad terms.”

   “Advocacy groups have long known the power of TV plot lines. Back in the 1980s, the Harvard School of Public Health mounted a campaign to normalize the idea of a “designated driver” to reduce drunk driving.”

   “Whether or not the Trump administration moves ahead, officials and observers say the proposal has normalized the forcible transfer of Palestinians – classified as “ethnic cleansing” and a “war crime” by the United Nations.”

2. (transitive)To consider normal, to treat as standard in the face of older norms.
3. (transitive)To format in a standardized manner, to make consistent.

   “We'll need to normalize these statements before we can compare them.”

4. (intransitive)To become normal; to return to a normal state.
5. (transitive)To reduce the variations by excluding irrelevant aspects.

   “After we properly normalize the measurements with respect to age, gender, geography and economic considerations, there remains little evidence of a difference between the two groups.”

   “The Dice coefficient normalizes for length by dividing by the total number of non-zero entries. We multiply by 2 so that we get a measure that ranges from 0.0 to 1.0 with 1.0 indicating identical vectors.”

   “It is possible that electrical stimulation may also act centrally, neuromodulating the altered muscle contractibility mechanism, recruiting a larger number of muscle fibers and normalizing the tone of the masticatory, hyoid and pharyngeal muscles [38 ,39 ].”

6. (transitive)To return a set of points (switches) to the normal position.
7. (intransitive)To return to the normal position from the reverse position.
8. (transitive)To subject to normalization; to eliminate redundancy in (a model for storing data).
9. (transitive)To anneal (steel) for the purpose of decreasing brittleness and increasing ductility.
10. (transitive)To divide a vector by its magnitude to produce a unit vector.
11. (transitive)To constrain a number's absolute value to be 1 at maximum. More generally, to constrain the magnitude of a mathematical quantity to be 1 at maximum.