Usually means: Heat treatment to alter microstructure.
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  1. anneal: Merriam-Webster
  2. anneal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. anneal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. anneal: Collins English Dictionary
  5. anneal: Vocabulary.com
  6. anneal: Wordnik
  7. anneal: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. anneal: Wiktionary
  9. anneal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. anneal: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. anneal: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. anneal: Dictionary.com
  13. anneal: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Anneal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Anneal: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. anneal: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. anneal: Rhymezone
  18. Anneal: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. anneal: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. anneal: FreeDictionary.org
  21. anneal: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. anneal: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. anneal: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. anneal: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  25. anneal: Merriam-Webster

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. anneal: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Beading Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. anneal: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. anneal: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  4. Hypermedia Glossary Of Genetic Terms (No longer online)
  5. Molecular Biology Glossary (No longer online)
  6. anneal: Medical dictionary

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Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Anneal: Biology dictionary
  2. AGRICULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY (No longer online)

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. National Glass Association Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Anneal: Glossary of Glass Terms
  4. ANNEAL: Power Engineering

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Definitions from Wiktionary (anneal)

verb:  (metallurgy) To subject to great heat and then (often slow) cooling, and sometimes reheating and further cooling, for the purpose of rendering less brittle; to temper; to toughen.
verb:  To cool glass slowly, to minimize internal stress.
verb:  (archaic) To burn colors onto a glass or other surface.
verb:  (genetics, ambitransitive) To make a double-stranded nucleic acid by pairing a single strand with a complementary strand.
verb:  (figurative, archaic or poetic) To strengthen or harden.
noun:  (chemistry, metallurgy) An act of annealing.

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