anneal

American  

[uh-neel] / əˈnil /

verb (used with object)

1. to heat (glass, earthenware, metals, etc.) to remove or prevent internal stress.

2. to free from internal stress by heating and gradually cooling.

3. to toughen or temper.

4. Biochemistry. to recombine (nucleic acid strands) at low temperature after separating by heat.

5. to fuse colors onto (a vitreous or metallic surface) by heating.

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noun

1. an act, instance, or product of annealing.

anneal British  

/ əˈniːl /

verb

1. to temper or toughen (something) by heat treatment

2. to subject to or undergo some physical treatment, esp heating, that removes internal stress, crystal defects, and dislocations

3. (tr) to toughen or strengthen (the will, determination, etc)

4. (often foll by out) physics to disappear or cause to disappear by a rearrangement of atoms

   defects anneal out at different temperatures

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noun

1. an act of annealing

Other Word Forms

• annealer noun
• unannealed adjective

Etymology

Origin of anneal

before 1000; Middle English anelen, Old English anǣlan to kindle, equivalent to an- on + ǣlan to burn, akin to āl fire

Example Sentences

Then there’s the matter of D-Wave’s proprietary annealing technology and its limited applications.

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However, D-Wave has long concentrated on a specific modality called annealing quantum computing, and only recently announced its return to gate-based quantum, the approach favored by peers like IonQ and International Business Machines.

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However, D-Wave has long concentrated on a specific modality called annealing quantum computing, and only recently announced its return to gate-based quantum, the approach favored by peers like IonQ and International Business Machines.

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The firm estimates that annealing makes up around 25% of the total addressable market for quantum computing.

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D-Wave uses quantum annealing, a process that is already commercially mature and can solve problems like workforce scheduling and factory floor planning, Wedbush noted.

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