1. Making normal or according to the standard. 2. Reducing or strengthening of a solution to make it normal. 3. Adjusting one curve to another by multiplication of the points of the one by some arbitrary factor.
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(in psychiatry) the process of making the living conditions of people with mental handicap as similar as possible to those of people who are not handicapped. This includes moves to living outside institutions and encouragement to cope with work, pay, social life, sexuality, and civil rights.
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nor·mal·iza·tion (nor″məl-ĭ-zaґshən) 1. the process of bringing or restoring to the normal standard. 2. in statistics, the process of transforming data so that it has no units but is expressed in terms of standard deviations from the mean.Medical dictionary. 2011.