different between aging vs annealing

English

Alternative forms

• ageing (Commonwealth English)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e?.d???/

Verb

aging

1. present participle of age

Noun

aging (countable and uncountable, plural agings) (US, Canada)

1. The process of becoming older or more mature.
2. The deliberate process of making something (such as an antique) appear (or, in science fiction, become) older than it is.
3. (gerontology) Becoming senescent; accumulating damage to macromolecules, cells, tissues and organs with the passage of time; progressing loss of health, mobility, vibrancy and body functionality, resulting in biological death.
4. Wear, wear and tear.

Translations

Adjective

aging (comparative more aging, superlative most aging)

1. Becoming elderly.

   The aging artist could no longer steadily hold the brush.

Usage notes

• Comparative and superlative forms are rare.

Translations

Anagrams

• Gangi, nigga

English

Noun

annealing (countable and uncountable, plural annealings)

1. The heating of solid metal or glass to high temperatures and cooling it slowly so that its particles arrange into a defined lattice.

Derived terms

• simulated annealing

Coordinate terms

• tempering

Translations

References

• Parthasarathy, S. and Chandrasekharan Rajendran, "A simulated annealing heuristic for scheduling to minimize mean weighted tardiness in a flowshop with sequence-dependent setup times of jobs—a case study". Production Planning & Control, 1997, 8(5), 476.

Verb

annealing

1. present participle of anneal

Further reading

• annealing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia