anneal

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These strips are put into iron boxes and kept at a red heat for a number of hours to anneal or soften them.

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  1. transitive verb To subject (glass or metal) to a process of heating and slow cooling in order to toughen and reduce brittleness.
  2. transitive verb To strengthen or harden.
  3. intransitive verb To become strengthened or hardened: "the time she needed for opinion to anneal around her policy” (Alexander M. Haig, Jr.)

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  • I had spoken with J.R. during our excursion to Blackwater about how I was trying to get a friend of mine to machine me a doodad I had designed to allow me to anneal my rifle cases using a drill. —  Sharp as a Marble
  • I don't anneal enough to invest in some fancy automated machine, so I used Google Sketch Up to design something I could fit into my drill and hit with a blowtorch, one at a time. —  Sharp as a Marble
  • The recombinase makes a 'nick' in one strand of a DNA double helix, allowing the nicked strand to separate from its complementary strand and anneal to one strand of the double helix on the opposite chromatid. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • Synthesis of ZnTe Nanowires onto TiO2 Nanotubular arrays by Pulse-Reverse Electrodeposition absorbance afm anneal conduction conductivity defect electrodeposition electroluminescence interface_recombination ito jv pl responsivity rf_sputter sem silicon tem temperature tio2 xps xrd znte CiteULike organises scholarly (or academic) papers or literature and provides bibliographic (which means it makes bibliographies) for universities and higher education establishments. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Materials that are brittle could be anneal by heating up.
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  1. Middle English anelen, from Old English onǣlan, to set fire to : on, on; see on + ǣlan, to kindle.

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  1. Now spelled in imitation of Latin words in ann-; properly, as in early modern English, aneal, from Middle English anelen, onelen, inflame, heat, melt, burn, from Anglo-Saxon anœ¯lan, onœ¯lan, burn, from an, on, on, + œ¯lan, burn, set on fire, from āl, also œ¯l, fire, a burning (a rare word: cf. alfet); cf. œ¯led, fire, = Old Saxon eld = Icelandic eldr = Swedish eld = Danish ild, fire (the vowel short, though orig. long). The particular sense ‘enamel’ may have been derived in part from Old French neeler, nieler, later neller, varnish, enamel, orig. paint in black upon gold or silver, from Middle Latin nigellare, blacken, enamel in black, from nigellum, a black enamel (later English niello, q. v.), from Late Latin nigellus, blackish, diminutive of Latin niger, black: see negro.
 

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