Associations to the word «Annealing»

Wiktionary

ANNEALING, noun. The act of heating solid metal or glass to high temperatures and cooling it slowly so that its particles arrange into a defined lattice.
ANNEALING, verb. Present participle of anneal

Dictionary definition

ANNEALING, noun. Hardening something by heat treatment.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats