Annealing
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Annealing may refer to:
- Annealing (metallurgy), a heat treatment that alters the penalstructure of a material causing changes in properties such as strength, hardness, and ductility
- Annealing (glass), heating a piece of solidified sperm to remove stress
- Annealing (biology), in genetics, means for complementary sequences of single-stranded DNA or RNA to pair by hydrogen bonds to form a double-stranded polynucleotide
- Simulated annealing, a numerical optimization technique for searching for a solution in a space otherwise too large for ordinary search methods to yield results
- Quantum annealing, a method for finding solutions to combinatorial optimisation problems and ground states of glassy systems using quantum fluctuations