Word Finder - tempering

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To moderate or control.

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To strengthen or toughen a material, especially metal, by heat treatment; anneal.

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Tempering is a heat treatment technique applied to metals, alloys, and glass to achieve greater toughness by increasing the strength of materials and/or ductility. Tempering is performed by a controlled reheating of the work piece to a temperature below its lower eutectic critical temperature.

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To sauté spices in ghee or oil to release essential oils for flavouring a dish in South Asian cuisine.

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To mix clay, plaster or mortar with water to obtain the proper consistency.

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To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use.

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(Latinism) To govern; to manage.

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To combine in due proportions; to constitute; to compose.

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To mingle in due proportion; to prepare by combining; to modify, as by adding some new element; to qualify, as by an ingredient; hence, to soften; to mollify; to assuage.

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To fit together; to adjust; to accommodate.

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The act by which something is tempered.

The peculiarity of these steels is that no quenching or tempering is required.

He could never make the rights over the drink traffic uniform and equal, nor restrict privileges in the matter of the taille; while he was soon much embarrassed, not only by the coalition of particular interests and local immunities, which made despotism acceptable by tempering it, but also by Louis XIV.s two masterpassions for conquest and for building.

The solution came abOut by arranging the elements in the order of their atomic weights, tempering the arrangement with the results deduced from the theory of valencies and experimental observations.

But the invaluable and rather delicate art of tempering the hardened steel by a very careful and gentle reheating, which removes its extreme brittleness though leaving most of ifs precious hardness, needs such skilful handling that it can hardly have become known until very long after the art of hot-forging.

The Pacific ranges, standing transverse to the course of the prevailing westerlies near the Pacific Ocean, are of the greatest importance in this respect; it is largely by reason of the barrier that they form that the tempering effects of the Pacific winds are felt for so short a distance inland in winter, and that the heat centre is displaced in summer so far towards the western coast.

Homer's familiarity with the art of tempering could come only after centuries of the wide use of iron.

Thermal Treatment.-The hardening, tempering and annealing of steel, the chilling and annealing of cast iron, and the annealing of malleable cast iron are explained readily by the facts just set forth.

The Tempering and Annealing of Steel.-But this sudden cooling goes too far, preserving so much 0-iron as to make the steel too brittle for most purposes.

This effect of chromium, tungsten and carbon jointly consists essentially in raising the " tempering temperature," i.e.

This iron needed no tempering, and the Celts had probably found it ready smelted by nature, just as the Eskimo had learned of themselves to use telluric iron embedded in basalt.

Types of muffle furnaces are figured in the article Annealing, Hardening And Tempering.

The Hereford fabrics would have needed tempering since the gravel found in them is not found naturally mixed with Devonian marl.

A thriving steel industry grew up around Toledo as the water in the river Tagus has special properties for the tempering the steel.

This is due to the stresses created in tempered glass by the tempering process.

However, if a full palette of bright colors is too much, consider tempering one bright color with two neutral fall wedding colors, like beige and brown.

Tempering helps to make the chocolate aesthetically pleasing by encouraging a stable crystalline structure of the final product.

As Angelus, Angel had butchered a young gypsy girl and her clan cursed Angelus with the soul of the man he had been before, tempering the beast.