Usually means: Heating and cooling to strengthen.
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General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. anneals: Merriam-Webster
  2. anneals: Collins English Dictionary
  3. anneals: Vocabulary.com
  4. anneals: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. anneals: Wiktionary
  6. anneals: Dictionary.com
  7. anneals: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. anneals: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. anneals: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. anneals: Medical dictionary

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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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