To anneal (steel) for the purpose of decreasing brittleness and increasing ductility.
To reduce the variations by excluding irrelevant aspects.
To make normal, to make standard.
To return a set of points (switches) to the normal position.
To divide a vector by its magnitude to produce a unit vector.
To return to the normal position from the reverse position.
To format in a standardized manner, to make consistent.
To subject to normalization; to eliminate redundancy in (a model for storing data).