annealing for steels

spherodizing, normalizing, full annealing, process annealing, and stress relief

Annealing and Sintering are the same processes.

Simulated annealing is a probabilistic optimization technique inspired by the annealing process in metallurgy. It is used to find good solutions to problems with large search spaces by exploring a diverse set of potential solutions and gradually reducing the search space over time. The method involves iteratively adjusting the temperature parameter to balance exploration of new solutions with exploitation of promising ones.

Annealing is making something stronger or more resolute. An example sentence would be: The annealing has to be done before it's complete.