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Annealing vs Hybridize - What's the difference?

annealing | hybridize |

As verbs the difference between annealing and hybridize

is that annealing is while hybridize is to cross-breed animals or plants to form hybrids.

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.

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)

    • hybridize

    English

    Alternative forms

    * hybridise (UK)

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • to cross-breed animals or plants to form hybrids
  • to construct a hybrid word from elements of different languages
  • (physics) to combine atomic orbitals mathematically to form hybrid orbitals
  • (biochemistry) to combine complementary subunits of multiple biological macromolecules