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

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

Derived forms: normalizing, normalizes, normalized

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

Encyclopedia: Normalize