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anneal

[ uh-neel ]

verb (used with object)

  1. to heat (glass, earthenware, metals, etc.) to remove or prevent internal stress.
  2. to free from internal stress by heating and gradually cooling.
  3. to toughen or temper.
  4. Biochemistry. to recombine (nucleic acid strands) at low temperature after separating by heat.
  5. to fuse colors onto (a vitreous or metallic surface) by heating.


noun

  1. an act, instance, or product of annealing.

anneal

/ əˈԾː /

verb

  1. to temper or toughen (something) by heat treatment
  2. to subject to or undergo some physical treatment, esp heating, that removes internal stress, crystal defects, and dislocations
  3. tr to toughen or strengthen (the will, determination, etc)
  4. often foll by out physics to disappear or cause to disappear by a rearrangement of atoms

    defects anneal out at different temperatures

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. an act of annealing
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈԱ𲹱, noun
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • ·Ա𲹱İ noun
  • ܲa·Ա𲹱 adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of anneal1

before 1000; Middle English anelen, Old English ǣ to kindle, equivalent to an- on + ǣ to burn, akin to fire
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of anneal1

Old English onǣ, from on + ǣ to burn, from fire
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That said, producing these cells involves high-temperature annealing and tricky post-treatment steps, significantly slowing fabrication and making it hard to incorporate them into everyday items.

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They used a thermal annealing process, exposing the film to air at 85 degrees Celsius for 24 hours.

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However, when COPs involve constraints, conventional quantum algorithms like adiabatic quantum annealing struggle to obtain a near-optimal solution within the operation time of quantum computers.

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The Rice University lab of nanotechnology pioneer Naomi Halas has uncovered a transformative approach to harnessing the catalytic power of aluminum nanoparticles by annealing them in various gas atmospheres at high temperatures.

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The team prepared crystalline samples of the material using a process called ball-milling, followed by annealing.

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