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1848 C. H. Meeker tr. ‘J. H. Rausse’ Errors of Physicians in Pract. of Water-cure viii. 89 The medicinal method of cure, which labors directly toward a normalization of the abnormal functions, and a removal of the symptoms and perceptions of disease, is unreasonable and ruinous.

1892 A. C. Morant tr. A. E. F. Schäffle Impossib. Soc. Democracy 107 This whole process of normalization.

1894 J. R. C. Hall Anglo-Saxon Dict. Pref. Normalisations have..been generally avoided.

1916 Jrnl. Iron & Steel Inst. 94 10 It is not suggested to abandon the term ‘normalise’, but to define normalisation as a treatment which will give equalisation and not metal of abnormal variations.

1929 E. U. Condon & P. M. Morse Quantum Mech. i. 30 When ΨΨ is to be used as probability it has to be so normalized, by choice of a constant multiplier for Ψ, that ∫ΨΨdv = 1... The same normalization is required from the distributed charge standpoint to express the fact that the total charge is e.

1944 E. Gregory & E. N. Simons Heat-treatm. Steel xx. 273 The steels not requiring normalization after forging should be cooled off in lime, then annealed.

1959 E. M. McCormick Digital Computer Primer xi. 155 To facilitate normalization, many computers have a special instruction..that counts the positions the number must be shifted left to be normalized.

1967 C. L. Wrenn Word & Symbol p. xii The problem of normalisation for Old English still requires scholarly attention.

1986 Oxf. Econ. Papers 38 235 In the Arrow–Debrell model, with two periods and uncertainty, only one price normalization is allowed.

1991 Struct. Change & Econ. Dynamics 2 232 A is a normalization factor such that the normalized weights (r_i · A) sums up to unity.

1935 K. Koffka Princ. Gestalt Psychol. xi. 499 Autonomous changes occur against the forces of normalization and pointing.

1971 J. Hochberg in R. S. Woodworth & H. Schlosberg Exper. Psychol. (1972) xii. 469 The normalization effects might thus simply be instances of the figural after effects produced by satiation.

1997 F. L. Bookstein in S. H. Koslow & M. F. Huerta Neuroinformatics 224 The subtler the effect that later analysis is intended to uncover, the more important is this preliminary shape normalization, and the more effective are any subsequent image-analytic strategies.

1938 Times Rev. Year 1937 p. vii/1 The ‘normalization’ of Polish–German relations.

1955 Times 22 Aug. 5/3 The Yugoslav Press has been complaining for some time that the process of ‘normalization’ with Albania was lagging behind other east European countries.

1974 J. White tr. N. Poulantzas Fascism & Dictatorship iv. i. 155 The Comintern entirely expunged the political..difference between a period of open civil war and the period of the ‘normalization’ of the class struggle.

2000 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 15 June 72/4 This is now known as the ‘normalization’ debate—i.e., the normalization of relations with the ex-enemy.