annealing

English

Wikipedia

Noun

annealing (plural annealings)

1. The act of heating 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 (bg) (zakaljavane)
• Czech: žíhání (cs) n
• Dutch: gloeien (nl)
• Finnish: hehkutus (fi)

• French: recuit (fr) m
• German: Glühen (de) n
• Korean: 열처리 (ko) (yeolcheori)
• Russian: отжиг (ru) (ótžig) 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.