Meaning

1 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The heating of solid metal or glass to high temperatures and cooling it slowly so that its particles arrange into a defined lattice to remove residual stress.

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

    Glühen, tempern

    о́тжигótžig

    відпалvidpal, відпалюванняvidpaljuvannja

More definitions
  • hardening something by heat treatment

Translations

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By meaning 1
act of heating solid metal or glass:
Русский
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act of heating solid metal or glass:
Deutsch
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act of heating solid metal or glass:

Forms

plural: annealings
Singularannealing
Pluralannealings

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • hardening something by heat treatment:tempering

Word family

1 related words

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