- to heat (glass, earthenware, metals, etc.) to remove or prevent internal stress.
- to free from internal stress by heating and gradually cooling.
- to toughen or temper.
- to recombine (nucleic acid strands) at low temperature after separating by heat.
- to fuse colors onto (a vitreous or metallic surface) by heating.
- an act, instance, or product of annealing.
- to temper or toughen (something) by heat treatment
- to subject to or undergo some physical treatment, esp heating, that removes internal stress, crystal defects, and dislocations
- to toughen or strengthen (the will, determination, etc)
- to disappear or cause to disappear by a rearrangement of atoms
- an act of annealing
