Normalise vs Normalize - What's the difference?
normalise | normalize | Alternative forms |
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.
Normalize is a antonym of normalise.
Normalize is a alternative form of normalise.
As verbs the difference between normalise and normalize
is that normalise is standard spelling of from=non-Oxford British spelling|normalize|lang=en while normalize is to make normal, to make standard.normalize
English
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.