Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The process or art of treating substances by means of heat, so as to remove their brittleness and at the same time render them tough and more or less elastic. In general, these results are obtained by heating to a high temperature and then cooling very gradually. All glassware, china, etc., which is to be subjected to great changes of temperature should be thus treated. The working of iron and steel by hammering, bending, rolling, drawing, etc., tends to harden them and make them brittle, and the original properties are restored by annealing. Steel plates and dies for bank-note printing and the like are annealed in a close box with iron filings or turnings, lime, or other substances, and are thus freed from carbon and reduced to pure soft iron, in which state they will readily take, under pressure, the finest engraving from a hardened plate or die. They are then hardened again to the degree necessary for their use in printing. Steel for engraving dies is commonly annealed by heating it to a bright cherry-red color, and cooling it gradually in a bed of charcoal.
- n. Same as tempering.
- n. A founders' term for the slow treatment of the clay or loam cores for castings, which, after having been dried, are burned or baked, and then are slowly cooled.
Wiktionary
- n. The act of heating solid metal or glass to high temperatures and cooling it slowly so that its particles arrange into a defined lattice.
- v. present participle of anneal.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The process used to render glass, iron, etc., less brittle, performed by allowing them to cool very gradually from a high heat.
- n. The burning of metallic colors into glass, earthenware, etc.
WordNet 3.0
- n. hardening something by heat treatment
Examples
“The term annealing usually implies relatively slow cooling.”
“Distribute Attachment 8-A, "Water and Oil Quenching" and ask participants to define and discuss the terms annealing, hardening and tempering.”
“These bubbles and channels form within the polymers as they are being created in a baking process, called annealing, that is used to improve the materials 'performance.”
“The process involves high pressures, high temperatures, irradiation, and annealing, which is the precise control of the heating and cooling process.”
“This process was called annealing, and the oven with a movable floor was technically denominated a leer.”
“We didn't even consider the idea of annealing helicases before this study started," said Kadonaga.”
“This process is called "annealing" and is exactly analagous to the physical process (used to produce stable crystalline formations) of the same name.”
“350° C. up to just below the lower critical, and forms sorbitic steel; while "annealing" refers to a heating for grain size at or above the transformation ranges, followed by a slow cooling.”
The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel
“Softening the blank rounds: The round blanks are the softened and cleaned by exposing them to higher temperatures in an annealing furnace, putting them in the tumbling barrels and finally into moving cylinders containing some chemicals.”
“If you do this neck reaming and annealing should also be done.”
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sionnach Of course, annealing could also refer to the state of a glazier when working by the glory hole. Or altar boys. Nov 9, 2007
reesetee Atoms as salespeople. I'll never see them the same way again. ;-) Nov 9, 2007
seanahan I actually studied simulated annealing in class today, funny coincidence. Nov 9, 2007
sionnach I just like the image of the atoms wandering randomly, like Odysseus, through "states of higher energy". Just like the traveling salesman wandering forlornly from city to city, in search of the elusive global optimum. Nov 8, 2007
reesetee Good heavens, sionnach. Now I'll never confuse the two. Nov 8, 2007
sionnach Not to be confused with simulated annealing:
Simulated annealing (SA) is a generic probabilistic meta-algorithm for the global optimization problem, namely locating a good approximation to the global optimum of a given function in a large search space. It is often used when the search space is discrete (e.g., all tours that visit a given set of cities). In favorable cases, simulated annealing may be more effective than exhaustive enumeration of the search space.
The name and inspiration come from annealing in metallurgy, a technique involving heating and controlled cooling of a material to increase the size of its crystals and reduce their defects. The heat causes the atoms to become unstuck from their initial positions (a local minimum of the internal energy) and wander randomly through states of higher energy; the slow cooling gives them more chances of finding configurations with lower internal energy than the initial one. Nov 8, 2007
reesetee The process of slowly cooling a completed glass object in an auxiliary part of the glass furnace or in a separate furnace. If a hot glass object is allowed to cool too quickly, it will be highly strained by the time it reaches room temperature and may break from the strain. Nov 8, 2007