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anneal
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anneal
v.
toughen, temper (by heating and cooling)
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Annealing
Annealing may refer to:
- Annealing (metallurgy), a heat treatment that alters the microstructure of a material causing changes in properties such as strength, hardness, and ductility
- Annealing (glass), heating a piece of glass to remove stress
- Annealing (biology), in genetics, means for complementary sequences of single-stranded DNA or RNA to pair by hydrogen bonds to form a double-stranded polynucleotide
- Simulated annealing, a numerical optimization technique for searching for a solution in a space otherwise too large for ordinary search methods to yield results
- Quantum annealing, a method for finding solutions to combinatorial optimisation problems and ground states of glassy systems using quantum fluctuations
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anneal
Verb
1. toughen (steel or glass) by a process of gradually heating and cooling; "temper glass"
(synonym) temper, normalize
(hypernym) toughen
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anneal
v.
žíhat; chladit
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Anneal
(v. t.)
To subject to great heat, and then cool slowly, as glass, cast iron, steel, or other metal, for the purpose of rendering it less brittle; to temper; to toughen.
To subject to great heat, and then cool slowly, as glass, cast iron, steel, or other metal, for the purpose of rendering it less brittle; to temper; to toughen.
(v. t.)
To heat, as glass, tiles, or earthenware, in order to fix the colors laid on them.
To heat, as glass, tiles, or earthenware, in order to fix the colors laid on them.
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