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Aging vs Annealing - What's the difference?

aging | annealing |

As verbs the difference between aging and annealing

is that aging is present participle of lang=en while annealing is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between aging and annealing

is that aging is the process of becoming older or more mature while annealing is the act of heating solid metal or glass to high temperatures and cooling it slowly so that its particles arrange into a defined lattice.

As an adjective aging

is becoming elderly.

aging

English

(wikipedia aging)

Alternative forms

* ageing (Commonwealth English)

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

  • (en noun) (US)
  • The process of becoming older or more mature.
  • Allowing something to become older.
    • The owner asked the clerk to age some big bills that were due.
  • The deliberate act of making something (such as an antique) appear older than it is.
  • (gerontology) Becoming senescent; accumulating damage to macromolecules, cells, tissues and organs with the passage of time
  • (euphemistic) Elderly person. Only as a collective plural in "the aging"

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Becoming elderly.
    • The aging artist could no longer steadily hold the brush.

    Usage notes

    * Comparative and superlative forms are rare.

    Anagrams

    *

    annealing

    English

    Noun

    (en 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.
    • Without annealing, the quality of our metal products will diminish.

    Derived terms

    * simulated annealing

    References

    * Parthasarathy, S. and Chandrasekharan Rajendran, "A simulated annealing heuristic for scheduling to minimize mean weighted tardiness in a flowshop with mean weighted tardiness in a flowshop with sequence-dependent setup times of jobs—a case study". Production Planning & Control , 1997, 8(5), 476.

    Verb

    (head)