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Definitions of anneal in various dictionaries:
verb - bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling
To subject (glass or metal) to a process of heating and slow cooling in order to toughen and reduce brittleness.
To become strengthened or hardened: “the time she needed for opinion to anneal around her policy” (Alexander M.
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| Temper, as metal |
| Strengthen |
| Strengthen by tempering |
| Toughen |
| Temper, as steel |
| Toughen, as glass |
| Temper |
| Heat to remove stress from, as glass |
| Fire in a kiln |
| Heat and then cool |
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| (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports) In glassblowing, this word means "to heat the finished vessel", & then allow it to cool uniformly |
| Possible Dictionary Clues |
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| heat (metal or glass) and allow it to cool slowly, in order to remove internal stresses and toughen it. |
| toughen (steel or glass) by a process of gradually heating and cooling |
| to make metal or glass soft by heating and then cooling it slowly |
| Heat (metal or glass) and allow it to cool slowly, in order to remove internal stresses and toughen it. |
| Recombine (DNA) in the double-stranded form. |
| To subject (glass or metal) to a process of heating and slow cooling in order to toughen and reduce brittleness. |
| To strengthen or harden. |
| To become strengthened or hardened: "the time she needed for opinion to anneal around her policy ( Alexander M. Haig, Jr.) |
| Anneal might refer to |
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| 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 |