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ANNEAL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does anneal mean?
• ANNEAL (verb)
The verb ANNEAL has 1 sense:
1. bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling
Familiarity information: ANNEAL used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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... he / she / it anneals Past simple: annealed
Past participle: annealed
-ing form: annealing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
Context example:
temper glass
Hypernyms (to "anneal" is one way to...):
harden; indurate (make hard or harder)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Context examples
Sequence-variant molecules are preferentially selected by the lower melting temperature of their mismatched heteroduplex after they've annealed to a wild-type molecule that is present in excess.
(COLD-PCR, NCI Thesaurus)
The annealed heteroduplexes, as well as other driver species are captured by the tagged nucleotide and removed from the mixture.
(cDNA Subtraction, NCI Thesaurus/OSP)
The two preparations are mixed, melted and annealed to form, among other species, heteroduplexes composed of one strand from each of the different sources.
(cDNA Subtraction, NCI Thesaurus/OSP)
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