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Määritelmät

Verbi

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. Alternative form of anele (“anoint”).
3. To cool glass slowly, to minimize internal stress.
4. (archaic) To burn colors onto a glass or other surface.
5. (genetics, ambitransitive) To make a double-stranded nucleic acid by pairing a single strand with a complementary strand.
6. (figurative, archaic or poetic) To strengthen or harden.

Substantiivi

1. (chemistry, metallurgy) An act of annealing.