Annealing may refer to:-
- Annealing (metallurgy), a heat treatment that alters the microstructure of a material causing changes in properties such as strength and hardness
- Annealing (glass), heating a piece of glass to remove stress
- Annealing (biology), DNA or RNA pairing by hydrogen bonds to a complementary sequence, forming a double-stranded polynucleotide
- Simulated annealing, a technique for searching for a solution in a space otherwise too large for "ordinary" search methods to yield results
- Information annealing or knowledge annealing, a network-based information system in which all users of the system are permitted to change the system at will
- Quantum annealing, a method for finding solutions to combinatorial optimisation problems and ground states of glassy systems using quantum fluctuations
- Full annealing, the annealing process of ferrous alloys. Annealing, in Metallurgy and Materials science, is a Heat treatment wherein a material is altered causing changes in its properties such as strength Annealing is a process of slowly cooling Glass to relieve internal stresses after it was formed Annealing, in Genetics, means for DNA or RNA to pair by Hydrogen bonds to a complementary sequence, forming a double-stranded Simulated annealing (SA is a generic probabilistic Meta-algorithm for the Global optimization problem namely locating a good approximation to the Information annealing or knowledge annealing, in Library and information science, is a network-based information system or body of knowledge in which all users of In Mathematics and applications quantum annealing (QA is a general method for finding the Global minimum of a given Objective function over
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annealing
-noun
- In metallurgy, the process of heating solid metal to high temperatures and cooling it slowly so that its particles arrange into a defined lattice.
-verb
- Present participle of anneal.
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