tempering
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]tempering
- present participle and gerund of temper
Noun
[edit]tempering (plural temperings)
- The act by which something is tempered.
- 1872, Louis Emmanuel Gruner, The Manufacture of Steel, page 29:
- Caron has, in fact, discovered this very curious circumstance, that a bar of steel becomes shorter under successive temperings, while it increases in size, laterally, in such a manner, that there actually is an increase of volume.
- (pottery, architecture) A non-plastic material, such as sand, added to clay to prevent shrinkage and cracking during drying or firing; temper.
- 1983, Barry Cunliffe, chapter 6, in Danebury Hillfort, Stroud: Tempus:
- Clay and tempering were packed around the pole together with plenty of water[.]
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Tempering (metallurgy) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - Tempering (spices) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Temper (pottery) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Tempered chocolate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
