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Definition anneal

Etymology

From Middle English anelen, onelen, from Old English an?lan, on?lan (“to burn, ignite, set fire to, consume, heat, enlighten, incite, inflame, inspire, kindle”), from Proto-Germanic *ana (“on”) + Proto-Germanic *ailijan? (“to burn”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?eyd?- (“to burn”). The word is related to Old English on?l (“that which is burnt, burning; incense”), Old English ?l (“fire, burning”), Icelandic eldur (“fire”), Swedish eld (“fire, flame”), Danish ild (“fire”).

Verb

anneal (third-person singular simple present anneals, present participle annealing, simple past and past participle annealed)

1. (metallurgy) To subject to great heat and then (often slow) cooling, and sometimes reheating and further cooling, for the purpose of rendering less brittle; to temper; to toughen.
2. To cool glass slowly, to minimize internal stress.
3. (archaic) To burn colors onto a glass or other surface.
4. (genetics, transitive, intransitive) To make a double-stranded nucleic acid by pairing a single strand with a complementary strand.
5. (figuratively, archaic or poetic) To strengthen or harden.

Noun

anneal (plural anneals)

1. (chemistry, metallurgy) An act of annealing.

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