Annealing

Annealing (dt. "Healing") stands for:

• Heat treatment of metals , glass and other materials to achieve defined material properties , see annealing and tempering
• Healing of crystal defects in material processing, see Bakeout
• Primer annealing in genetics, see primer hybridization
• Simulated annealing, a heuristic optimization method, see Simulated cooling

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