noun
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An act of annealing.
verb
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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.
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To cool glass slowly, to minimize internal stress.
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To burn colors onto a glass or other surface.
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To make a double-stranded nucleic acid by pairing a single strand with a complementary strand.
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To strengthen or harden.
example
The experience annealed them, strengthening their resolve.
Examples of anneal in a Sentence
Over time, our love will anneal to unbreakable devotion.
It is probable that when the metal rod was withdrawn the vessel was filled with sand, to prevent collapse, and buried in heated ashes to anneal.
To make this glass sculpture, the artist had to anneal each component to make it less brittle.
At the Vienna mint the practice has been to anneal silver bars after each passage through the rolls.
My uncle showed me how to anneal the metal to create a workbench for my garage.