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Anneal vs Annealing - What's the difference?

anneal | annealing |

As verbs the difference between anneal and annealing

is that anneal is (metallurgy) to subject to great heat, and then cool slowly for the purpose of rendering less brittle; to temper; to toughen while annealing is .

As a noun 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.

anneal

English

(Annealing)

Alternative forms

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Verb

(en verb)
  • (metallurgy) To subject to great heat, and then cool slowly for the purpose of rendering less brittle; to temper; to toughen.
  • *
  • To strengthen or harden.
    • There was more than one way to anneal them with regards to resolve.

    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)