单词 | normalizing |
释义 | normalizingn. 1. The action of normalize v. ΘΚΠ society > computing and information technology > [noun] > numerical representation > expression in standard form normalizing1893 society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [noun] > hardening, tempering, or annealing > heating to refine structure normalizing1893 1893 Mod. Lang. Notes 7 396/1 There is less risk, less opportunity of normalizing, whenever the phonetist and linguist endeavors to fix..the sounds..of the language of a savage tribe. 1935 A. B. Kinzel in Symp. Welding Iron & Steel (Iron & Steel Inst.) II. iii. 424 Complete normalising or stress-relieving of the entire structure should be considered essential if high internal stress exists. 1970 O. Dopping Computers & Data Processing vii. 112 In computers with built-in operations for floating-point arithmetic..normalizing usually occurs as a special operation. 1984 E. P. DeGarmo et al. Materials & Processes in Manuf. (ed. 6) vi. 131 When extreme softness is not required and cost savings are desired, normalizing may be employed. 1993 Woodworker June 60/2 The cooling down process is known as ‘normalising’ which, as the name suggests, will bring the steel back to its normal state. 2. Psychology. = normalization n. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > psychology > mental image > [noun] > making normal normalizing1929 normalization1935 1929 Jrnl. Exper. Psychol. 12 3 The first kind [of change] he [sc. Wulf] calls normalizing (Normalizierung), i.e. a change (presumably in the reproductions) in the direction of a familiar object. 1935 K. Koffka Princ. Gestalt Psychol. xi. 499 Normalizing occurs when the reproductions approach successively a familiar form. 1970 L. Zusne Visual Perception of Form vii. 312 Making the reproduced figure resemble some well-known shape (normalizing). 1993 P. H. K. Seymour in D. M. Willows et al. Visual Processes in Reading xvii. 364 It is possible that procedures such as format distortion..tap only a subset of operations within the visual analysis stage of reading, perhaps those concerned with parsing and grouping of letter arrays and the normalizing of distortions. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). normalizingadj. That normalizes (in any sense); that performs or undergoes normalization. ΚΠ 1901 Publ. Amer. Econ. Assoc. 2 199 The undertaker and his income presently came to be so large and ubiquitous figures in economic life that their presence could not be overlooked by the most normalizing economist. 1923 Contemp. Rev. Mar. 366 If a rise in the price of tin should follow on the already normalising price of materials. 1993 R. Hughes Culture of Complaint ii. 105 Literature isn't a nice normalizing course of treatment whose purpose is to guide and cuff us into becoming better citizens. 2001 Sunday Herald (Electronic ed.) 1 Apr. Play is a stabilising, normalising experience for a child. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1893adj.1901 |
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