annealing

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annealing
n. process of tempering (by heating and cooling)
 
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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annealing

Noun
1. hardening something by heat treatment
(synonym) tempering
(hypernym) hardening

 
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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Annealing
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Anneal
  
 
(n.)
The process used to render glass, iron, etc., less brittle, performed by allowing them to cool very gradually from a high heat.
  
 
(n.)
The burning of metallic colors into glass, earthenware, etc.
  

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