⚖️ To make standard 🔥 To heat-treat

to normalize

1 7.0

Heat then cool metal or glass to make its texture and strength even

verb
/ˈnɔːrməlaɪz/

Specialized

: normalizar

In the manufacturing process, they need to normalize the glass to ensure it has the right texture.
normalized data

Examples

In varying degrees, all have been troubled by what they perceive as Washington's one-sided support of Israel, but two, Egypt and Jordan, have found advantage in normalizing their relations with Israel and abetting American efforts to broker an Israeli-Palestinian peace.

Academic text (2003)
The technician will heat the metal and then cool it slowly to normalize its structure.
And before they, when they get an order for that size piece of granite, they'll bring it inside and let it normalize back to temperature.
The presidents of Ethiopia and Sudan were reported to have agreed to normalize relations between the two countries.

Academic text (2001)
To make matters worse, not only Moscow, but also Beijing, normalized relations with Seoul in the early 1990s.

Academic text (2001)
To normalize the hardness of the steel, it must be heated to a specific temperature and then cooled.

Synonyms

to temper

vsto normalize

Specialized

9 6.4

Make metal stronger and less likely to break by heating and cooling

prefers controlled gradual heat treatment to set consistency and surface texture

to anneal

vsto normalize

Specialized

1 8.9

To heat metal or glass then let it cool slowly to make it stronger

uses gradual heating and cooling to reach a desired texture or hardness

Antonyms

to distort

59 4.3

To change the shape of something so it is no longer normal

to deform

59 4.8

To change a thing's normal shape so it becomes bent or twisted

How Hardened

to quench

Specialized

1 7.1

to normalize

Specialized

1 7.0

to anneal

Specialized

1 8.9

Surface Forms

normalize infinitive

normalized past

normalized past participle

normalizing present participle

normalizes third person singular

Morphology

normalize = normal (semi-transparent) = normal + ize

Formally derived from 'normal' + '-ize', but the metallurgical meaning 'heat and cool to achieve desired properties' is a specialized sense not predictable from the base by a general learner.

Etymology

Normalize comes from the root norm meaning 'rule' or 'pattern' and the ending -ize meaning 'to make'. In work with metal or glass the idea is the same: to normalize is to bring the material back to the right pattern or state so its texture and hardness become even and standard.