annealing – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
annealing
n.
process of tempering (by heating and cooling)
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
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
anneal
v.
žíhat; chladit
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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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