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verb
- 1. heat (metal or glass) and allow it to cool slowly, in order to remove internal stresses and make it easier to work: "copper tubes must be annealed after bending or they will be brittle"
- 2. recombine (DNA) in the double-stranded form.
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The meaning of ANNEAL is to heat and then cool (a material, such as steel or glass) usually for softening and making less brittle; also : to cool slowly usually in a furnace. How to use anneal in a sentence.
ANNEAL definition: 1. to make metal or glass soft by heating and then cooling it slowly 2. to make metal or glass soft…. Learn more.
ANNEAL meaning: 1. to make metal or glass soft by heating and then cooling it slowly 2. to make metal or glass soft…. Learn more.
1. To subject (glass or metal) to a process of heating and slow cooling in order to toughen and reduce brittleness. 2. To strengthen or harden. v.intr. To become strengthened or hardened: "the time she needed for opinion to anneal around her policy" (Alexander M. Haig, Jr.).
1. to temper or toughen (something) by heat treatment. 2. to subject to or undergo some physical treatment, esp heating, that removes internal stress, crystal defects, and dislocations. 3. (transitive) to toughen or strengthen (the will, determination, etc) 4. (often foll by out) physics.
When you anneal metal or glass, you heat it and then cool it in order to make it less brittle and more malleable. Metallurgists — engineers who specialize in the properties and uses of metals — have to know a variety of methods used to anneal different kinds of metals.
In metallurgy and materials science, annealing is a heat treatment that alters the physical and sometimes chemical properties of a material to increase its ductility and reduce its hardness, making it more workable.
anneal something to heat metal or glass and allow it to cool slowly, in order to make it softer and easier to shape (= more ductile)
Sep 28, 2024 · anneal (third-person singular simple present anneals, present participle annealing, simple past and past participle annealed) To subject to great heat and then (often slow) cooling, and sometimes reheating and further cooling, for the purpose of rendering less brittle; to temper; to toughen.
There is one meaning in OED's entry for the noun anneal. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definition, usage, and quotation evidence.
