Normative vs Normalize - What's the difference?
normative | normalize |
Of or pertaining to a norm or standard.
Conforming to a norm or norms.
Attempting to establish or prescribe a norm.
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 normative
is of or pertaining to a norm or standard.As a verb normalize is
to make normal, to make standard.normative
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(wikipedia normative)Adjective
(en adjective)- normative behaviour
- normative grammar
Hyponyms
* prescriptive * proscriptiveDerived terms
* normative economics * normative ethics * normative grammar * normatively * normativeness * normative science * normative system * normativist * normativitynormalize
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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.