heat treatment

English

Noun

heat treatment (countable and uncountable, plural heat treatments)

1. The process of modifying the physical or chemical properties of a material (especially a metal) via either heating or cooling.

Related terms

• heat-treat
• heat treater

 

Translations

process

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 熱處理 / 热处理 (zh) (rèchǔlǐ)

References

• “heat treatment, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Further reading

• heat treatment on Wikipedia.Wikipedia