Origin: Latin suffix -al
Anneal has 3 different meanings across 1 category:
Verb
An act of annealing.
bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling
"temper glass"
To subject to great heat and then (often slow) cooling, and sometimes reheating and further cooling, for the purpose of rendering less brittle; to temper; to toughen.