annealing

English

Noun

annealing (countable and uncountable, plural annealings)

1. The heating of solid metal or glass to high temperatures and cooling it slowly so that its particles arrange into a defined lattice.

   Without annealing, the quality of our metal products will diminish.

Derived terms

• simulated annealing

Translations

act of heating solid metal or glass

• Bulgarian: закаляване (zakaljavane)
• Czech: žíhání n
• Dutch: gloeien (nl)
• Finnish: hehkutus (fi)
• French: recuit (fr) m
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• German: Glühen n
• Korean: 열처리 (ko) (yeolcheori)
• Portuguese: recozimento m
• Russian: о́тжиг (ru) m (ótžig)
• Spanish: recocido (es) m

References

• Parthasarathy, S. and Chandrasekharan Rajendran, "A simulated annealing heuristic for scheduling to minimize mean weighted tardiness in a flowshop with mean weighted tardiness in a flowshop with sequence-dependent setup times of jobs—a case study". Production Planning & Control, 1997, 8(5), 476.

Verb

annealing

1. present participle of anneal