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Meaning of anneal

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

anneal

Pronunciation:/əˈniːl/

noun

Definitions

  1. An act of annealing.

verb

Definitions

  1. 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.

  2. To cool glass slowly, to minimize internal stress.

  3. To burn colors onto a glass or other surface.

  4. To make a double-stranded nucleic acid by pairing a single strand with a complementary strand.