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 to remove residual stress.

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

Coordinate terms

• tempering

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
• German: Glühen n, tempern (de)
• Hungarian: hőkezelés (hu)
• Korean: 열처리 (ko) (yeolcheori)
• Portuguese: recozimento m
• Russian: о́тжиг (ru) m (ótžig)
• Spanish: recocido (es) m
• Swedish: glödgning (sv), härdning (sv)

References

• Parthasarathy, S. and Chandrasekharan Rajendran, "A simulated annealing heuristic for scheduling to minimize 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 and gerund of anneal

Further reading

• annealing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia