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misnormalize

misnormalize verb: to normalize incorrectly.

Verb

misnormalize (third-person singular simple present misnormalizes, present participle misnormalizing, simple past and past participle misnormalized)

  1. (rare, transitive) To normalize incorrectly.
    • The first two points of the pairs involving 340 MHz are clearly misnormalized due to interference in the first two bins of the 340 MHz autospectrum and should be ignored.1978, Stephen Lynn Scott, Density Spectrum and Velocity of the Solar Wind Inferred from Scintillation Observations, page 92
    • The offset values, say X₁, Y1₁, D₁, G1₁, will misnormalize the signal part s₁ (x,y) such that S₁ (x,y) is misplaced and misscaled.1983, IEEE 1983 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, page 119

Forms of misnormalize

third-person singular presentmisnormalizes
present participlemisnormalizing
past participlemisnormalized
pastmisnormalized

Origin of misnormalize

From mis- + normalize.

Questions about misnormalize

What does misnormalize mean?
Misnormalize means to normalize incorrectly.
What part of speech is misnormalize?
Misnormalize is a verb.
What is the past tense of misnormalize?
The past tense of misnormalize is misnormalized.

Words near misnormalize in the dictionary

  1. misnomered
  2. misnomering
  3. misnomers
  4. misnomial
  5. misnominal
  6. misnormalize
  7. misnormalized
  8. misnormalizes
  9. misnormalizing
  10. misnote
  11. misnoted

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