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Uniformize vs Normalize - What's the difference?

uniformize | normalize |

As verbs the difference between uniformize and normalize

is that uniformize is to make uniform while normalize is to make normal, to make standard.

uniformize

English

Alternative forms

*uniformise

Verb

(uniformiz)
  • To make uniform.
  • *{{quote-book, 2004, Toivo Miljan, Historical Dictionary of Estonia, page=294, isbn=0810849046 citation
  • passage=... who in vivid contrast to Kabin pursued a deliberate policy of Russification and uniformization with the rest of the Soviet Union. }}
  • (mathematics) To carry out a process of uniformization, by which a multiple-valued function on a Riemann surface is converted to a single-valued function.
  • *{{quote-book, 2000, Ludwig Bieberbach, Conformal Mapping, page=198 citation
  • passage=It is clear that these functions are also the only ones to be uniformized by the simple mapping of the Riemann surface, for of course any function that is single-valued in t must have been, before the mapping, a single-valued function on the Riemann surface. }}

    Derived terms

    *uniformizable *uniformization

    See also

    * ----

    normalize

    English

    Alternative forms

    * normalise (UK)

    Verb

  • To make normal, to make 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.
  • To format in a standardized manner, to make consistent.
  • We'll need to normalize these statements before we can compare them.
  • (statistics) To reduce to 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.
  • (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.
  • Antonyms

    * (rail transport) reverse (transitive and intransitive)