Noun: the act of taking a piece of code that was originally crafted as its own little special snowflake, and making it instead work like the rest of the system now does.
(What? Yes, it's simply a special case of refactoring. But you have to admit that it's evocative of the point...)
I thought this was going to be about people--as in, that moment when someone realizes that they are not that special snowflake (or perhaps that everyone is one) and matures accordingly.
Which is kinda similar...