annealed
No results for "annealed" were found in Additional
anneal
v.
toughen, temper (by heating and cooling)
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
annealed
Adjective
1. made less brittle by heating and then cooling; "used annealed paving blocks"
(similar) tempered, treated, hardened, toughened
anneal
Verb
1. toughen (steel or glass) by a process of gradually heating and cooling; "temper glass"
(synonym) temper, normalize
(hypernym) toughen
anneal
v.
žíhat; chladit
Annealed
(imp. & p. p.)
of Anneal
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About