Annealing may refer to:
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Annealing (biology)
Nucleic acid thermodynamics is the study of how temperature affects the nucleic acid structure of double-stranded DNA (dsDNA). The melting temperature (''Tm'') is defined as the temperature at which half of the DNA strands are in the random coil o ...
, in genetics
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Annealing (glass), heating a piece of glass to remove stress
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Annealing (materials science)
In metallurgy and materials science, annealing is a heat treatment that alters the physical and sometimes chemical properties of a material to increase its ductility and reduce its hardness, making it more workable. It involves heating a materia ...
, a heat treatment that alters the microstructure of a material
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Quantum annealing
Quantum annealing (QA) is an optimization process for finding the global minimum of a given objective function over a given set of candidate solutions (candidate states), by a process using quantum fluctuations. Quantum annealing is used mainl ...
, a method for solving combinatorial optimisation problems and ground states of glassy systems
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Simulated annealing, a numerical optimization technique
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