- to make normal: Traditional Chinese medicine uses ginseng to normalize blood pressure.
- to cause (something previously considered abnormal or unacceptable) to be treated as normal:I have to resist the impulse to normalize her eccentricities.
- to establish or resume (relations) in a normal manner, as between countries.
- to mathematically transform or adjust (the values in a data set) so that they fit a standard measure or scale, such as by making all the values fall between 0 and 1: Data was normalized before analysis.
- to heat (a steel alloy) to a suitable temperature above the transformation range and then cool it in still air at ambient temperature.
- to become normal; resume a normal state: Prices soon normalized after the war.
- to bring or make into the normal state
- to bring into conformity with a standard
- to heat (steel) above a critical temperature and allow it to cool in air to relieve internal stresses; anneal
