单词 | well-annealed |
释义 | well-annealedadj. Thoroughly or properly annealed (in various senses). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > glass and glass-like materials > [adjective] > toughened or tempered well-annealed1606 annealed1684 toughened1876 armoured1899 wired1908 1606 H. Peacham Art of Drawing 69 Scrape it good and harde with a knife, and if the color goeth off; it hath not enough of the fire, & if it hold it is wel annealed. 1761 E. Kinnersley Let. 12 Mar. in B. Franklin Exper. & Observ. Electr. (1769) 392 The wire was red hot the whole length, well annealed, and above an inch longer than before. 1802 A. Walker Syst. Familiar Philos. (new ed.) II. vii. 11 A cylinder of well annealed glass, about eighteen inches long in the belly, and fourteen diameter, is a good size. 1831 D. Brewster Treat. Optics xxi. 184 Thin plates of well-annealed flint glass. 1854 B. Powell Pereira's Lect. Polarized Light (ed. 2) 139 A well-annealed piece of glass, all of whose parts possess equal elasticity, is a single refractor. 1918 Pop. Sci. Monthly Mar. 470/2 The magnetic reluctance..is practically greatest with air and least with well annealed wrought iron. 1946 Nature 26 Oct. 583/1 Well-annealed glass is strain-free when uniformly heated. 2009 B. D. Cullity & C. D. Graham Introd. Magn. Materials (ed. 2) i. 18 Curve (a) might relate to a well-annealed material, and curve (b) to the heavily cold-worked state. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1606 |
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