1. To adjust values to a common basis so they can be compared.
2. To make a practice or condition seem usual or acceptable.
3. To return something to its ordinary state, or become ordinary again.
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Words that belong together
- normalize for population size
- normalize scores
- normalize unequal treatment
On the page
The analysts normalized energy use by floor area before ranking the buildings.
Repeated exceptions can normalize a practice that once seemed unacceptable.
Relations between the institutions normalized after the agreement was signed.
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Word forms
- Base
- normalize / normalizes
- Past tense
- normalized
- Past participle
- normalized
- Present participle
- normalizing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- normalize / normalizes
- Present continuous
- am/is/are normalizing
- Present perfect
- have/has normalized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been normalizing
- Past
- normalized
- Past continuous
- was/were normalizing
- Past perfect
- had normalized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been normalizing
- Future
- will normalize / normalizes
- Future continuous
- will be normalizing
- Future perfect
- will have normalized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been normalizing
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: academic. State the mathematical operation in analysis: normalizing does not always mean making a distribution normal. Social normalization concerns acceptance, not numerical adjustment. British spelling: normalise. Verb inflections [base, third-person singular, past, past participle, -ing]: normalize, normalizes, normalized, normalized, normalizing. British spelling and inflections: normalise, normalises, normalised, normalised, normalising. Derived family (not inflections): normalization, normal.
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