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Annealing vs Normalizing - What's the difference?

annealing | normalizing |

As verbs the difference between annealing and normalizing

is that annealing is while normalizing 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.

As an adjective normalizing is

that normalizes.

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)

    • normalizing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (head)
  • that normalizes

    • Derived terms

    * normalizing constant