Annealing

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  • n. The act of heating solid metal or glass to high temperatures and cooling it slowly so that its particles arrange into a defined lattice.
  • v. Present participle of anneal.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. 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.
  • n. Same as tempering.
  • n. 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. hardening something by heat treatment
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    hardening   
    Verb Stem
    anneal   
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