tempering

verb

Definitions

  1. present participle and gerund of temper

  2. The act by which something is tempered.

    • 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.
  3. A non-plastic material, such as sand, added to clay to prevent shrinkage and cracking…

    A non-plastic material, such as sand, added to clay to prevent shrinkage and cracking during drying or firing; temper.

    • Clay and tempering were packed around the pole together with plenty of water[.]

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