Jump to content

Annealing

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Old Moonraker (talk | contribs) at 13:19, 16 September 2008 (Reverted 1 edit by Dannyallen123 identified as vandalism to last revision by Georgelade. (TW)). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Annealing may refer to:-

  • Annealing (metallurgy), a heat treatment that alters the microstructure of a material causing changes in properties such as strength and hardness
  • Annealing (glass), heating a piece of glass to remove stress
  • Annealing (biology), DNA or RNA pairing by hydrogen bonds to a complementary sequence, forming a double-stranded polynucleotide
  • Simulated annealing, a technique for searching for a solution in a space otherwise too large for "ordinary" search methods to yield results
  • Information annealing or knowledge annealing, a network-based information system in which all users of the system are permitted to change the system at will
  • Quantum annealing, a method for finding solutions to combinatorial optimisation problems and ground states of glassy systems using quantum fluctuations
  • Full annealing, the annealing process of ferrous alloys.