Annealing

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The process or art of treating substances by means of heat, so as to remove their brittleness and at the same time render them tough and more or less elastic.
  • noun. Same as tempering.
  • noun. A founders' term for the slow treatment of the clay or loam cores for castings, which, after having been dried, are burned or baked, and then are slowly cooled.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The process used to render glass, iron, etc., less brittle, performed by allowing them to cool very gradually from a high heat.
  • noun. The burning of metallic colors into glass, earthenware, etc.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The act of heating solid metal or glass to high temperatures and cooling it slowly so that its particles arrange into a defined lattice.
  • verb. Present participle of anneal.
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  • noun. hardening something by heat treatment
    • Word Usage
    "The term annealing usually implies relatively slow cooling."
    Hypernym
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    hardening  
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    verb-stem
    anneal  
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