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ANNEALING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does annealing mean?
• ANNEALING (noun)
The noun ANNEALING has 1 sense:
1. hardening something by heat treatment
Familiarity information: ANNEALING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Hardening something by heat treatment
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
annealing; tempering
Hypernyms ("annealing" is a kind of...):
hardening (the act of making something harder (firmer or tighter or more compact))
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