Third-person singular present form of anneal; heats and slowly cools glass or metal to strengthen it.
Present tense conjugation of 'anneal,' from Old English 'onælan'; standard English verb formation.
The fact that we still use a word with Old English roots for a sophisticated industrial process shows how foundational some English words are to our technical vocabulary!
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