1. Become normal or return to its normal state
   "Let us hope that relations with this country will normalise soon";
   - normalize
    
2. Make normal or cause to conform to a norm or standard
   "normalise relations with China";
   - normalize, renormalize, renormalise [Brit]
    
3. Bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling
   "The metalworker normalised the steel components";
   - anneal, temper, normalize
    
4. (mathematics) scale to integrate to a standard value, usually one
   "They normalised the data to compare results across different experiments";
   - normalize, norm

1. (mathematics) multiply by a factor to have a specific scale, esp. so that the norm or integral is unity
   "normalise the distribution";
   - normalize

Derived forms: normalising, normalises, normalised

Type of: alter, change, harden, indurate, modify

Encyclopedia: Normalise