normalize

To make normal, to bring into alignment with an established standard.

There is little hope that the two countries will normalize relations; their governments seem to hate each other and would just as soon stay on bad terms.

Advocacy groups have long known the power of TV plot lines. Back in the 1980s, the Harvard School of Public Health mounted a campaign to normalize the idea of a “designated driver” to reduce drunk driving.

To consider normal, to treat as standard in the face of older norms.

To format in a standardized manner, to make consistent.

We'll need to normalize these statements before we can compare them.

To become normal; to return to a normal state.

To reduce the variations by excluding irrelevant aspects.

After we properly normalize the measurements with respect to age, gender, geography and economic considerations, there remains little evidence of a difference between the two groups.

The Dice coefficient normalizes for length by dividing by the total number of non-zero entries. We multiply by 2 so that we get a measure that ranges from 0.0 to 1.0 with 1.0 indicating identical vectors.