Is this the correct way to interpret the national standard GBT 7232-2012?

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GBT 7232-2012 Terms for Metal Heat Treatment Processes 3.1 Annealing: A heat treatment process in which the workpiece is heated to an appropriate temperature, held there for a certain period of time, and then cooled slowly. 4.1 Normalizing is a heat treatment process in which the workpiece is heated to achieve austenitization and then cooled in air or another medium, resulting in a microstructure dominated by pearlite. 5.1 Quenching: hardening; transformation hardening – A heat treatment process in which a workpiece is heated to achieve austenitization and then cooled in an appropriate manner to obtain a martensitic or (and) bainitic structure. The most common methods include water quenching, oil quenching, air quenching, etc. 6.1 Tempering is a heat treatment process in which a workpiece that has been hardened is heated to a temperature below Ac1, held at that temperature for a certain period of time, and then cooled to room temperature. According to national standards, we know that 1) without quenching, there is no tempering. Therefore, tempering is essentially a combination of \"quenching and tempering\" ； 2) Pure quenching hardly exists, so quenching and tempering can be combined into one process, known as the “quenching-tempering combination”” ； 3) The \"quenching-and-tempering combination\" and normalizing both specify a heating target (austenite in all cases) and a cooling target (martensite, bainite – more precisely lower bainite, pearlite), while annealing does not specify either a heating target or a cooling target ； 4) The definition of annealing is loose; it only requires three steps: “heating,” “holding at a constant temperature,” and “slow cooling.” However, “slow cooling” generally implies cooling in the furnace and transformation into a balanced microstructure ； 5) Normalizing has clear heating objectives (austenite) and cooling objectives (pearlite), but it is not limited to air cooling; it is estimated that air cooling is used in most cases. May I ask, is this the correct way to interpret the national standard GBT 7232-2012?