(Normalize|Standardize) is a scale transformation on a numeric variable distribution to have:
The transformation to a Z scale is a standardization.
By normalizing, you get your data (variable) between 0 and 1 so the calculations aren't skewed by some attribute that happens to be on some gigantic scale
To Standardize a variables, you take the variable value and you divide it by the standard deviation of that variable over all the observations. See Statistics - Z Score (Zero Mean) or Standard Score
A standardize variable makes the variable and their coefficients comparable when they have different unit.