Ageing (disambiguation)
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Aging is the effect of time on a person.
Aging or ageing may also refer to:
Biology
- Senescence, the biological effect of time on an organism
Demography
- Population ageing, a shift in the distribution of a population towards older ages
Chemistry
- Polymer degradation, a change of polymer properties due to environmental factors
- Precipitation hardening, a heat treatment of materials
- Ostwald ripening, precipitate or deposit aging in chemistry
Food preparation
- Aging (food), the leaving of a product to improve its flavor
- Aging of wine, the effect of time on wine
- Barrel aging, a method of maturing wine, spirits, etc.
- Beef aging, a process of preparing beef for consumption
- Cheese ripening, a process in cheesemaking
Computers
- Aging (file system), a tendency towards data fragmentation in file systems
- Aging (scheduling), an operating system technique for resource allocation
- Software aging, the tendency of software to exhibit problems as time passes by
Other uses
- Aging (artwork), a process by which an artwork is made to appear old
- Aging (journal), a medical journal
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See also
- Age (disambiguation)
- All pages with titles containing Aging
- All pages with titles containing Ageing
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