annealing

== English == === Pronunciation === === Noun === annealing (countable and uncountable, plural annealings) 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. ==== Coordinate terms ==== tempering ==== Derived terms ==== simulated annealing ==== Translations ==== ==== 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 present participle and gerund of anneal === Further reading === annealing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia