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What does anneal mean?

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Verb
  1. (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.
  2. To cool glass slowly, to minimize internal stress.
  3. (archaic) To burn colors onto a glass or other surface.
  4. (genetics) To make a double-stranded nucleic acid by pairing a single strand with a complementary strand.
  5. (figuratively, archaic or poetic) To strengthen or harden.
Noun
  1. (chemistry) An act of annealing.
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