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“Normalized” or “Normalised”

Normalized is predominantly used in American (US) English (en-US) while normalised is predominantly used in British English (used in UK/AU/NZ) (en-GB).

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Usage by country

Where each spelling is used

Of the 12 countries below, 4 prefer “normalized” and 4 prefer “normalised”. Usage levels are out of 100; the more common spelling in each country is in bold.

Usage level out of 100 (if available).
Country normalized normalised Preference
United States 98 2 “normalized”
United Kingdom 37 63 “normalised”
India 66 34 “normalized”
Philippines 100 0 “normalized”
Canada 96 4 “normalized”
Australia 37 63 “normalised”
Liberia 0 0 Not enough data
Ireland 49 51 “normalised”
New Zealand 40 60 “normalised”
Jamaica 0 0 Not enough data
Trinidad & Tobago 0 0 Not enough data
Guyana 0 0 Not enough data
Usage

Examples in context

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“normalized”

  • The comparison must be dose normalized (e.g., account for different doses…
  • g is a normalized Gaussian function with width δ…
  • Normalized radial basis functions
  • …invariant to brightness, so Adams normalized each term by the Y…
  • …this time, Cohen advocated for normalized relations with China, and was…
  • At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to…
  • …of the outcome is the normalized square of the norm of…
  • At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to…
  • …partial differential equation for the normalized density of the hidden state.
  • …to confusions, especially if some normalized adimensional, dimensionless variables are used.

“normalised”

  • At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to…
  • …of the metric system that normalised the acceleration due to gravity.
  • …are accepted, and are subsequently normalised.
  • …of time, this phenomenon has normalised the food web, increasing the…
  • The normalised second order correlation function is…
  • Unison reported the normalised performance of the network for…
  • At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to…
  • At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to…
  • …in corridors had "largely been normalised and accepted as standard practice”…
  • Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating to reviews, gives the…

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