title: Annealing
text: 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