Annealing

noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The heating of solid metal or glass to high temperatures and cooling it slowly so that its particles arrange into a defined lattice to remove residual stress. countable, uncountable

    "Without annealing, the quality of our metal products will diminish."

  2. 2
    hardening something by heat treatment wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of anneal form-of, gerund, participle, present

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