anneal, temper, normalize
(verb) bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling; “temper glass”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
anneal (third-person singular simple present anneals, present participle annealing, simple past and past participle annealed)
(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.
To cool glass slowly, to minimize internal stress.
(archaic) To burn colors onto a glass or other surface.
(genetics, ambitransitive) To make a double-stranded nucleic acid by pairing a single strand with a complementary strand.
(figurative, archaic or poetic) To strengthen or harden.
• (harden): indurate, ruggedize, temper; see also harden
• (strengthen): See also strengthen
anneal (plural anneals)
(chemistry, metallurgy) An act of annealing.
• Leanna
Source: Wiktionary
An*neal", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Annealed; p. pr. & vb. n. Annealing.] Etym: [OE. anelen to heat, burn, AS. an; an on + to burn; also OE. anelen to enamel, prob. influenced by OF. neeler, nieler, to put a black enamel on gold or silver, F. nieller, fr. LL. nigellare to blacken, fr. L. nigellus blackish, dim. of niger black. Cf. Niello, Negro.]
1. To subject to great heat, and then cool slowly, as glass, cast iron, steel, or other metal, for the purpose of rendering it less brittle; to temper; to toughen.
2. To heat, as glass, tiles, or earthenware, in order to fix the colors laid on them.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 December 2024
(adverb) in an intuitive manner; “inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles”
Contrary to popular belief, coffee beans are not technically beans. They are referred to as such because of their resemblance to legumes. A coffee bean is a seed of the Coffea plant and the source for coffee. It is the pit inside the red or purple fruit, often referred to as a cherry. Just like ordinary cherries, the coffee fruit is also a so-called stone fruit.
