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    [Verb]  | "an*neal" | \ ə-ˈnēl \


    1: to heat and then cool (a material, such as steel or glass) usually for softening and making less brittle; also : to cool slowly usually in a furnace

    2: to cause two complementary strands of nucleic acid (such as DNA or RNA) to join by hydrogen bonding; also : to induce the binding of a genetic primer to a complementary single-stranded nucleic acid by slowly cooling single strands obtained from the heating and separation of double-stranded DNA or RNA

    3: strengthen, toughen


    Origin: 1664 ;

     Middle English anelen to set on fire, from Old English onǣlan, from on + ǣlan to set on fire, burn, from āl fire; akin to Old English ǣled fire, Old Norse eldr;

    [Verb]  | "anneals" 


    1: to make stronger (as through hardship);


      * e.g., " ... She was annealed by the tragedies of her childhood. "





    [Verb]  | "anneal" 


    1: to make stronger (as through hardship);


      * e.g., " ... She was annealed by the tragedies of her childhood. "





     [ "anneal" ]

    1: To have sex with someone.

      * e.g.,  ... Wow, he's so hot, he can anneal me any day. I annealed that girl over the kitchen stove last night. 

     [ "Simulated annealing" ]

    1: algorithm consisting of a molecular dynamics simulation with gradually decreasing temperature

      * e.g.,  ... In order to find the lowest energy of the molecule, I used a simulated annealing calculation. 

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