Canonical vs Normalized - What's the difference?
canonical | normalized |
Present in a canon, religious or otherwise.
According to recognised or orthodox rules.
Stated or used in the most basic and straightforwardly applicable manner.
Prototypical.
(religion) In conformity with canon law.
(music) In the form of a canon.
(religion) Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical chapter
(mathematics, computing) In canonical form.
(mathematics) Distinguished among entities of its kind, so that it can be picked out in a way that does not depend on any arbitrary choices.
(Roman Catholicism) The formal robes of a priest
* {{quote-book, year=1857, author=Various, title=The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 1, Issue 2, December, 1857, chapter=, edition=
, passage=He, good man, could make but little of his solitary friend, and must many a time have been startled out of his canonicals by the strange, alien speeches which he heard. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1915, author=, title=The Research Magnificent, chapter=, edition=
, passage=When I was a boy I was a passionate atheist, I defied God, and so far as God is the mere sanction of social traditions and pressures, a mere dressing up of the crowd's will in canonicals , I do still deny him and repudiate him. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1891, author=, title=The White Lady of Hazelwood, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Mr Altham rose, as in duty bound, in honour to a priest, and a priest who, as he dimly discerned by his canonicals , was not altogether a common one. }}
(normalize)
To make normal, to make standard.
To format in a standardized manner, to make consistent.
(statistics) To reduce to variations by excluding irrelevant aspects.
(rail transport) To return a set of points (switches) to the normal position.
(rail transport, intransitive, of points) To return to the normal position from the reverse position.
(transitive, computing, database) To subject to normalization; to eliminate redundancy in (a model for storing data).
(mathematics) To divide a vector by its magnitude to produce a unit vector.
As an adjective canonical
is present in a canon, religious or otherwise.As a noun canonical
is the formal robes of a priest.As a verb normalized is
past tense of normalize.canonical
English
(wikipedia canonical)Adjective
(en adjective)- The is a canonical New Testament book.
- The men played golf in the most canonical way, with no local rules.
- the reduction of a linear substitution to its canonical form
Synonyms
* (mathematics) naturalAntonyms
* (scripture) apocryphalDerived terms
* canonicallyNoun
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normalized
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Verb
(head)normalize
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Alternative forms
* normalise (UK)Verb
- 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.
- We'll need to normalize these statements before we can compare them.
- 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.
