Anneal

Quick meaning: Anneal is a verb meaning To cool glass slowly, to minimize internal stress.

Meaning

To cool glass slowly, to minimize internal stress.

More Meanings

1. (genetics, ambitransitive) To make a double-stranded nucleic acid by pairing a single strand with a complementary strand.
2. (figurative, archaic or poetic) To strengthen or harden.
3. (chemistry, metallurgy) An act of annealing.
4. (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.
5. Alternative form of anele (“anoint”).
6. (archaic) To burn colors onto a glass or other surface.

Example Sentences

A properly made, fully sintered and fully annealed metal clay piece should be able to stand up to any traditional metalsmithing technique.

I felt his strong bones anneal themselves to my own, his blood vent its bright tide into my veins, the semen of his testicles foam as it dashed in a torrent against mine.

The 5′ junction is checked using a target gene-specific primer of ~21 nucleotides, which anneals upstream of the cassette integration site, together with a primer which anneals downstream of the first loxP site in the PCR cassette.

Such were the features of her heavenly Face, / Her limbs were form'd with ſuch harmonious grace: / So faultleſs was the frame, as if the whole / Had been an emanation of the ſoul; / Which her own inward ſymmetry reveal'd; / And like a picture ſhone, in glaſs anneal'd.

Word Forms

• anneals
• annealing
• annealed

Synonyms for anneal

Depending on context, synonyms include indurate, ruggedize, temper.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include temper, isochronal, toughen, neal, reanneal, heat-treat.

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