annealing
uh nee ling
- n hardening something by heat treatment
- v bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling
- His argument is only a state is capable of manufacturing the EFP's, which involves a complicated annealing process.
- He has "never known such a thrill" as when his father gave him, a shop hand at the family foundry, $500 and his fellow workers congratulated him, for molding and annealing .
- But from the moment of birth, a lot of things set to work on that temperament--moderating it, challenging it, annealing it, wounding it.