Annealing

Annealing may refer to:

• Annealing (biology), in genetics
• Annealing (glass), heating a piece of glass to remove stress
• Annealing (materials science), a heat treatment that alters the microstructure of a material
• Quantum annealing, a method for solving combinatorial optimisation problems and ground states of glassy systems
• Simulated annealing, a numerical optimization technique