tempering - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)

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tempering

1. present participle and gerund of temper

tempering (plural temperings)

1. 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.
2. (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[.]

• annealing

• nontempering

• repigment

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