NORMALIZATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does normalization mean? 

• NORMALIZATION (noun)
  The noun NORMALIZATION has 1 sense:

1. the imposition of standards or regulations

  Familiarity information: NORMALIZATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NORMALIZATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The imposition of standards or regulations

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

normalisation; normalization; standardisation; standardization

Context example:

a committee was appointed to recommend terminological standardization

Hypernyms ("normalization" is a kind of...):

social control (control exerted (actively or passively) by group action)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "normalization"):

stabilisation; stabilization (the act of stabilizing something or making it more stable)

stylisation; stylization (the act of stylizing; causing to conform to a particular style)

Derivation:

normalize (make normal or cause to conform to a norm or standard)

 Context examples 

History of plasmacytic leukemia after therapy with no evidence on the peripheral blood or bone marrow of leukemia (normalization of all hematologic parameters).

(Plasma Cell Leukemia in Remission, NCI Thesaurus)

History of leukemia after therapy with no evidence on the peripheral blood or bone marrow of leukemia (normalization of all hematologic parameters).

(Leukemia in Remission, NCI Thesaurus)

It induces differentiation and suppresses proliferation of keratinocytes, reversing abnormal keratinocyte changes in psoriasis, and leads to normalization of epidermal growth.

(Calcipotriene, NCI Thesaurus)

A method for normalization based upon the concept of a quantile-quantile plot extended to n dimensions.

(Bioconductor caAffy Quantiles Robust Normalization, NCI Thesaurus)

A method for normalization based upon quantiles.

(Bioconductor caAffy Quantiles Normalization, NCI Thesaurus)

In this normalization process, each value subtracts the column mean and is divided by the column standard deviation.

(Discretize, NCI Thesaurus)

A reduction in PTH levels inhibits osteoclast activity, which may result in a decrease in cortical bone turnover and bone fibrosis, and normalization of serum calcium and phosphorus levels.

(Cinacalcet Hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)

A method which relies on identifying invariant sets of features across arrays, and using these to perform normalization.

(Baseline Removal Method, NCI Thesaurus)

A method for performing probe-level normalization of signal intensity to generate summaries file using CNAT method.

(CNAT Probe Normalization Method, NCI Thesaurus)