heat treatment

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Noun

heat treatment (countable and uncountable, plural heat treatments)

  1. The process of modifying the physical or chemical properties of a material (especially a metal) via either heating or cooling.
    Synonym: heat-treating (noun)
    Hyponyms: quenching, hardening, tempering; marquenching, martempering, precipitation hardening

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