(metallurgy) To subject to great heat and then (often slow) cooling, and sometimes reheating and further cooling, for the purpose of rendering less brittle; to temper; to toughen.

(chemistry, metallurgy) An act of annealing.

Any of various wormlike animals, of the phylum Annelida, having a segmented body; they include the earthworm and the leech

of, or relating to these creatures

A randomized improvement algorithm, analogous to the metalworking process of annealing.

The heating of solid metal or glass to high temperatures and cooling it slowly so that its particles arrange into a defined lattice.

present participle of anneal

Of or pertaining to annelids

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of anneal

plural of anneal.