Annealing

Anneal may refer to:

Annealing (metallurgy), a heat treatment wherein the microstructure of a material is altered, causing changes in its properties such as strength and hardness.
Annealing (glass), heating a piece of glass until its temperature reaches a stress-relief point.
Annealing (biology), in genetics, 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, in library and information science, is a network-based information system or body of knowledge in which all users of the system are permitted to change the system at will.