Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Apr 2003 16:09:50 +0100 | From | viro@parcelfa ... | Subject | Re: How did the Spelling Police miss this one? |
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On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 10:46:06AM -0400, Timothy Miller wrote:
> On the other hand, "canonicalize", while strange and new, unambiguously > means (b). > > Is there an already-existing word which means (b)?
% webster normalize nor-mal-ize \'no[0xC7]r-me-,l[0xF5]^-z\ vt -ized; -iz-ing (1865) 1: to make conform to or reduce to a norm or standard 2: to make normal (as by a transformation of variables) 3: to bring or restore (as relations between countries) to a normal condition -- nor-mal-iz-able \-,l[0xF5]^--ze-bel\ adj -- nor-mal-iza-tion \,no[0xC7]r-me-le-'za^--shen\ n - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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