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The correct spelling is tempered.
How to pronounce tempered
adjective
Say it like: Tem-per-ed
The correct spelling is tempered. (in combination) Having a specified disposition or temper. For example: "Temper your language around children."
Usage Examples
“Temper your language around children.”
“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.”
Meanings
adjective
- 1.(in combination) Having a specified disposition or temper.
- 2.Pertaining to the metallurgical process for finishing metals.
- 3.Pertaining to the industrial process for toughening glass, or to such toughened glass.
- 4.Moderated or balanced by other considerations.
- 5.Pertaining to the well-tempered scale, where the twelve notes per octave of the standard keyboard are tuned in such a way that it is possible to play music in any major or minor key and it will not sound perceptibly out of tune.
verb
- 1.To moderate or control.
- 2.To strengthen or toughen a material, especially metal, by heat treatment; anneal.
- 3.To sauté spices in ghee or oil to release essential oils for flavouring a dish in South Asian cuisine.
- 4.To mix clay, plaster or mortar with water to obtain the proper consistency.
- 5.To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use.
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