ANNEALING

'Annealing' may refer to:

★ Annealing (metallurgy), a heat treatment that alters the micro structure of a material causing changes in properties such as strength and hardness

★ Annealing (glass), heating a piece of glass to remove stress

★ Annealing (biology), DNA or RNA pairing by hydrogen bonds to a complementary sequence, forming a double-stranded polynucleotide

★ Simulated annealing, a technique for searching for a solution in a space otherwise too large for "ordinary" search methods to yield results

★ Information annealing or knowledge annealing, a network-based information system in which all users of the system are permitted to change the system at will

★ Quantum annealing, a method for finding solutions to combinatorial optimization problems and ground states of glassy systems using quantum fluctuations