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