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Definition of Annealing
1. Noun. Hardening something by heat treatment.
Definition of Annealing
1. n. The process used to render glass, iron, etc., less brittle, performed by allowing them to cool very gradually from a high heat.
Definition of Annealing
1. Noun. The act of heating solid metal or glass to high temperatures and cooling it slowly so that its particles arrange into a defined lattice. ¹
2. Verb. (present participle of anneal) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Annealing
1. anneal [v] - See also: anneal
Medical Definition of Annealing
1. 1. Toughening upon slow cooling. 2. Used in the context of DNA renaturation after temperature dissociation of the two strands. Rate of annealing is a function of complementarity. 3. Fusion of microtubules or microfilaments end to end. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (22 Feb 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Annealing
Literary usage of Annealing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Making, Shaping and Treating of Steel by James McIntyre Camp, Charles Blaine Francis (1920)
"The same is also true in the case of the "white annealing" of cold rolled sheets.
... All true or full annealing, however, requires that the steel be heated ..."
2. Steel and Its Heat Treatment by Denison Kingsley Bullens (1916)
"CHAPTER III Annealing Annealing.—Annealing, in its commercial application, may
have for its purpose any or all of the following aims: (1) to " soften " the ..."
3. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1920)
"Obviously the most suitable temperature for this annealing is the highest at
which no formation of graphite occurs within the white tread and at which the ..."
4. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1903)
"Dry Annealing. — The process known as dry annealing is very effective. ...
Water Annealing. — By water annealing, small pieces of steel can be very ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"The flattener, with a piece of charred wood, rube It quite smooth, and then places
it on edge In the annealing arch, where It remains about three days to be ..."
6. Iron and Steel (a Pocket Encyclopedia) Including Allied Industries and by Hugh Philip Tiemann (1919)
"For annealing they are piled on a bottomland covered with a steel or iron
box (annealing box, annealing pot) to exclude the air, the operation being known ..."
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