"normalize" meaning in English

See normalize in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /ˈnɔː.mə.laɪz/ [UK], /ˈnɔr.mə.laɪz/ [US] Audio: en-us-normalize.ogg [US], en-au-normalize.ogg [Australia] Forms: normalize [canonical], normalizes [third-person, singular], normalized [past], normalized [past, participle], normalizing [present, participle]
Etymology: normal + -ize Etymology templates: {{ety-suffix|normal|ize}} normal + -ize Head templates: {{verb|normaliz|e}} [POS TABLE]
  1. If you normalize something, you make it normal or set it as a standard.
    Sense id: simple-normalize-en-verb-r597eTPV
  2. If you normalize a set of data, you adjust the values to a common scale.
    Sense id: simple-normalize-en-verb-I9Z5dgjo Categories (other): Mathematics
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
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