NORMALIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does normalize mean? 

• NORMALIZE (verb)
  The verb NORMALIZE has 3 senses:

1. become normal or return to its normal state

2. make normal or cause to conform to a norm or standard

3. bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling

  Familiarity information: NORMALIZE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NORMALIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they normalize    ... he / she / it normalizes   
Past simple: normalized   
Past participle: normalized   
-ing form: normalizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Become normal or return to its normal state

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

normalise; normalize

Context example:

Let us hope that relations with this country will normalize soon

Hypernyms (to "normalize" is one way to...):

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Verb group:

normalise; normalize; renormalise; renormalize (make normal or cause to conform to a norm or standard)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make normal or cause to conform to a norm or standard

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

normalise; normalize; renormalise; renormalize

Context example:

normalize the spelling

Hypernyms (to "normalize" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Verb group:

normalise; normalize (become normal or return to its normal state)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

normalization (the imposition of standards or regulations)

normalizer (a person who normalizes)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

anneal; normalize; temper

Context example:

temper glass

Hypernyms (to "normalize" is one way to...):

harden; indurate (make hard or harder)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

Hours times picograms per milliliter (area under the curve), divided by milligrams per kilogram per day (daily dose normalized by weight).

(Hour Times Picogram Per Milliliter Per Milligram Per Kilogram Per Day, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Commonly it is obtained from the slope of a Patlak plot, where it is the increase in tissue activity concentration normalized by plasma activity concentration that occurs in a unit of normalized time.

(Influx Constant, NCI Thesaurus)

Plotting integrals of tissue activity concentrations Q and of plasma activity concentrations Cp, but these integrals both being tissue-normalized.

(Logan Plot, NCI Thesaurus)

Hours times picograms per milliliter (area under the curve), divided by milligrams per kilogram (dose normalized by weight).

(Hour Times Picogram Per Milliliter Per Milligram Per Kilogram, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Hours times nanograms per milliliter (area under the curve), divided by milligrams per kilogram per day (daily dose normalized by weight).

(Hour Times Nanogram Per Milliliter Per Milligram Per Kilogram Per Day, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Hours times milligrams per milliliter (area under the curve), divided by milligrams per kilogram (dose normalized by weight).

(Hour Times Milligram Per Milliliter Per Milligram Per Kilogram, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Hours times milligrams per milliliter (area under the curve), divided by milligrams per kilogram per day (daily dose normalized by weight).

(Hour Times Milligram Per Milliliter Per Milligram Per Kilogram Per Day, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Milligrams per milliliter (concentration), divided by milligram per kilogram per day (daily dose normalized by body weight).

(Milligram Per Milliliter Per Milligram Per Kilogram Per Day, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Milligrams per milliliter (concentration), divided by milligrams per kilogram (dose normalized by weight).

(Milligram Per Milliliter Per Milligram Per Kilogram, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Picograms per milliliter (concentration), divided by milligrams per kilogram (dose normalized by weight).

(Picogram Per Milliliter Per Milligram Per Kilogram, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)