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

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope