misnormalize

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verb

To normalize incorrectly.

Scrabble 25

Meanings

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

present singular third person misnormalizes · participle present misnormalizing · participle past misnormalized · past misnormalized

  1. raretransitiveTo normalize incorrectly.

    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
    2 more examples

    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

    Calculations which were based on perfect WW functions that were misnormalized as described above were able to reproduce the plots given by Lee et al.

    1983, Light Scattering from Polymers, page 138

Origin

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