Standard Lemma guide

normalization

name · noun · 11 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: [ˌnɔː.məˌlaɪˈzeɪ.ʃn̩]
  • Received-Pronunciation: [ˈnɔː.mə.ləˈzeɪ.ʃn̩]
  • General-American: /ˌnɔɹ.mə.ləˈzeɪ.ʃən/
  • General-American: /ˌnɔɹ.məˌlaɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/
  • New-Jersey: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Australian: [ˌnoː.məˌlɑɪˈzæɪ.ʃn̩]
  • Australian: [ˈnoː.mə.ləˈzæɪ.ʃn̩]
  • CMU ARPABET: N AO2 R M AH0 L IH0 Z EY1 SH AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

name

Meaning 1

Peace efforts and treaties between the Arab League and Israel. See Arab–Israeli normalization.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: government, politics

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

Any process that makes something more normal or regular, which typically means conforming to some regularity or rule, or returning from some state of abnormality.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

Standardization, act of imposing standards or norms or rules or regulations.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

In relational database design, a process that breaks down data into record groups for efficient processing, by eliminating redundancy.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: computing, databases, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences

Examples

  • Meronym: atomization

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

Process of establishing normal diplomatic relations between two countries.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: diplomacy, government, politics

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

Globalization, the process of making a worldwide normal and dominant model of production and consumption.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: economics, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

noun

Meaning 7

Normalized production.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Qualifier: operations

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

noun

Meaning 8

Sharing or enforcement of standard policies.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: government, politics

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

9

noun

Meaning 9

A process whereby artificial and unwanted norms of behaviour and models of behaviour are made to seem natural and wanted, through propaganda, influence, imitation and conformity.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: human-sciences, sciences, social-science, sociology

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

10

noun

Meaning 10

The process of removing statistical error in repeated measured data.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: mathematics, sciences, statistics

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

11

noun

Meaning 11

the imposition of standards or regulations

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • a committee was appointed to recommend terminological standardization

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: standardization, standardisation, normalisation

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: social control

Narrower terms: stabilization, stabilisation, stylization, stylisation

History

Etymology

From normal + -ization or normalize + -ation.

Across languages

Translations

34 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Belarusian: нармаліза́цыя (narmalizácyja) — any process that makes something more normal or regular
  • Bulgarian: нормализация (normalizacija) — any process that makes something more normal or regular
  • Catalan: normalització — any process that makes something more normal or regular
  • Chinese Mandarin: 正常化 (zhèngchánghuà) — any process that makes something more normal or regular
  • Chinese Mandarin: 正規化 /正规化 (zhèngguīhuà) — any process that makes something more normal or regular
  • Danish: normalisering — any process that makes something more normal or regular
  • Dutch: normalisatie — any process that makes something more normal or regular
  • Finnish: normalisointi — any process that makes something more normal or regular
  • Finnish: normitus — any process that makes something more normal or regular
  • French: normalisation — any process that makes something more normal or regular
  • Galician: normalización — any process that makes something more normal or regular
  • German: Normalisierung — any process that makes something more normal or regular
  • Greek: κανονικοποίηση (kanonikopoíisi) — any process that makes something more normal or regular
  • Hebrew: נרמול (nirmúl) — any process that makes something more normal or regular
  • Hebrew: נוֹרְמָלִיזָצְיָה (normalizátsya) — any process that makes something more normal or regular
  • Hindi: सामान्यीकरण (sāmānyīkraṇ) — any process that makes something more normal or regular
  • Hungarian: normalizálás — any process that makes something more normal or regular
  • Italian: normalizzazione — any process that makes something more normal or regular
  • Japanese: 正常化 (seijōka) — any process that makes something more normal or regular
  • Japanese: 正規化 (seikika) — any process that makes something more normal or regular
  • Japanese: ノーマライゼーション (nōmaraizēshon) — any process that makes something more normal or regular
  • Māori: whakanoatanga — any process that makes something more normal or regular
  • Māori: whakapūnoatanga — any process that makes something more normal or regular
  • Norman: normalisâtion — any process that makes something more normal or regular
  • Occitan: normalizacion — any process that makes something more normal or regular
  • Polish: normalizacja — any process that makes something more normal or regular
  • Portuguese: normalização — any process that makes something more normal or regular
  • Portuguese: normatização — any process that makes something more normal or regular
  • Romanian: normalizare — any process that makes something more normal or regular
  • Russian: нормализа́ция (normalizácija) — any process that makes something more normal or regular
  • Spanish: normalización — any process that makes something more normal or regular
  • Swedish: normalisering — any process that makes something more normal or regular
  • Ukrainian: нормаліза́ція (normalizácija) — any process that makes something more normal or regular
  • Vietnamese: sự thông thường hoá — any process that makes something more normal or regular
Real reading context

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