1. Heating and slow cooling of a material that alters the properties to increase ductility and reduce hardness, making it more workable or to increase toughness
   "The annealing of the metal parts improved their durability";
   - tempering

1. Bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling
   "anneal glass";
   - temper, normalize, normalise [Brit]

Sounds like: aneling

Derived forms: annealings

Type of: harden, hardening, indurate

Encyclopedia: Annealing